The Bahá’í Faith and African American History: Creating Racial and Religious Diversity

Author:   Loni Bramson ,  Christopher Buck ,  Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis ,  Louis Venters
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498570046


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   09 September 2021
Format:   Paperback
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The Bahá’í Faith and African American History: Creating Racial and Religious Diversity


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This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá’í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá’ís in America have actively worked to establish interracial harmony within its own ranks and to contribute to social justice in the wider community, becoming in the process one of the country’s most diverse religious bodies. Spanning from the start of the twentieth century to the early twenty-first, the essays in this volume examine aspects of the phenomenon of this religion confronting America’s original sin of racism and the significant roles African Americans came to play in the development of the Bahá’í Faith’s culture, identity, administrative structures, and aspirations.

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Author:   Loni Bramson ,  Christopher Buck ,  Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis ,  Louis Venters
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781498570046


ISBN 10:   1498570046
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   09 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction by Loni Bramson 1. The Bahá’í “Pupil of the Eye” Metaphor: Promoting Ideal Race Relations in Jim Crow America by Christopher Buck 2. “The Most Vital and Challenging Issue”: The Bahá’í Faith’s Efforts to Improve Race Relations, 1922 to 1936 by Loni Bramson 3. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá’í Faith by Christopher Buck 4. The Most Challenging Issue Revisited: African American Bahá’í Women and the Advancement of Race and Gender Equality, 1899-1943 by Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis 5. Hand in Hand: Race, Identity, and Community Development among South Carolina’s Bahá’ís,1973-1979 by Louis Venters 6. Race Unity Efforts among American Bahá’ís: Institutionalized Tools and Empirical Evidence by Mike McMullen 7. Race, Place, and Clusters: Current Vision and Possible Strategies by June Manning Thomas Conclusion by Multiple Authors of the Chapters in This Book About the Contributors

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Loni Bramson is associate professor at the American Public University System.

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