Baha'i Faith and African American History (eBook)

Creating Racial and Religious Diversity

Loni Bramson (Herausgeber)

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2021
296 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7003-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the early twentieth century, the Baha’í religion has worked to establish racially and ethnically diverse communities. During Jim Crow, it was a leader in breaking norms of racial segregation. Each chapter of this book presents an aspect of Baha’i history that intersects with African American history in novel and socially significant ways.

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This book examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bah' Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bah's 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 Bah' Faith's culture, identity, administrative structures, and aspirations.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Introduction by Loni Bramson1. The Bahá’í “Pupil of the Eye” Metaphor: Promoting Ideal Race Relations in Jim Crow America by Christopher Buck2. “The Most Vital and Challenging Issue”: The Bahá’í Faith’s Efforts to Improve Race Relations, 1922 to 1936 by Loni Bramson3. Alain Locke on Race, Religion, and the Bahá’í Faith by Christopher Buck4. The Most Challenging Issue Revisited: African American Bahá’í Women and the Advancement of Race and Gender Equality, 1899-1943 by Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis5. Hand in Hand: Race, Identity, and Community Development among South Carolina’s Bahá’ís,1973-1979 by Louis Venters6. Race Unity Efforts among American Bahá’ís: Institutionalized Tools and Empirical Evidence by Mike McMullen7. Race, Place, and Clusters: Current Vision and Possible Strategies by June Manning ThomasConclusion by Multiple Authors of the Chapters in This BookAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2021
• Co-Autor: Loni Bramson, Christopher Buck, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Mike McMullen, June Manning Thomas, Louis Venters
• Einführung: Loni Bramson
• Zusatzinfo: 13 Illustrations including: - 13 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American • Alain Locke • baha’i • southern religion
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7003-8 / 1498570038
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7003-9 / 9781498570039