Any good books on the Baha'i faith?

[white_wolf]

Hey, I'm just about finished up with "No god, but God" by Reza Aslan, which is a great book to learn more about Islam. Anyway, I started thinking one religion I know very little about is the Baha'i faith and I was wondering if anyone had any books to share or at could at least post some stuff about it?

[HuckleB]

1. .

http://bahai-library.com/unpubl.compilations/homosexuality.comp.html

and...

http://www.patheos.com/Library/Bahai/Historical-Development/Exploration-Conquest-Empire-(incl-violence-persecution).html

[bananas]

2. If you can, talk to them in person

You will miss a lot just by reading books.
If I was going to pick a religion, I would be Ba'hai.
edit to add: and that's not because of books I read, but because of people I've known.

[Sen McGlinn]

3. Bahai books

There are many Bahai books online, free

For Bahai scriptures and some other bits and pieces, see the Bahai reference library:
http://reference.bahai.org/en/
Among Baha'u'llah's works (see http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/), look at the Hidden Words and Seven Valleys, Gleanings, Tablets revealed after the Aqdas
Among Abdu'l-Baha's works, (http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/), I recommend
Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions
For Shoghi Effendi, I suggest The Promised Day is Come.

All these and much much more in secondary literature is online at the Bahai Library Online,
http://bahai-library.com/

For brief introductions, there is Momen's book:
http://bahai-library.com/momen_short_introduction_bahai
and a 'brief course' compiled by the Bahai World Centre:
http://bahai-library.com/brief_course_bahai_faith

If you really like a solid book in your hands, there is Garlington's "Bahai Faith in America", Momen's title that I forgot, McMullen's "the Bahai" (sociological), and Peter Smith's "the Babi and Bahai religions" (a sociologically-tinted academic introduction & history). If I was teaching Comp. Rel. 101 I would chose Peter Smith's book