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The Baháʼí Faith: The Emerging Global Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-87743-264-3. McMullen, Michael D. (2000). The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Atlanta, Georgia: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2836-4. Lundberg, Zaid (May 1996). Baha'i Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation ...
[94] [95] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi [sic] was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.. Baháʼí Faith – relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.
The Baháʼí Faith teaches the importance of faith. This entails accepting that the wisdom of God, as revealed by a Manifestation of God , is unfathomable and should be accepted. According to the Baháʼí perspective, faith and reason must always be compatible.
Unity of humanity is one of the central teachings of the Baháʼí Faith. [1] The Baháʼí teachings state that since all humans have been created in the image of God, God does not make any distinction between people regardless of race or colour . [ 2 ]
Bahá'í teachings "affirm that Islam is a true religion revealed by Allah"; accordingly, members of the faith can give full assent to the traditional words of the Shahadah. [2] Muhammad is taken to be one of the most important messengers of God as an "independent" Manifestation of God.
The Baha'i Faith and the World's Religions. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. pp. 1– 38. Momen, Moojan (1997). A Short Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith. Oneworld. ISBN 9781851681204. Momen, Moojan (1988). Studies in Honor of the Late Husayn M. Balyuzi. Kalimat Press. pp. 185– 217. ISBN 9780933770720. Smith, Peter (2008). An Introduction to the ...
The Baha'i Faith in Africa: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-20684-7. Johnson, Todd M.; Brian J. Grim (26 March 2013). "Global Religious Populations, 1910–2010". The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 59– 62.