The Bahai Faith And African American Studies
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Author | : Loni Bramson |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781666900163 |
This book provides new material on the members of the Bahá'í Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony is central to their religious expression. Using historical research, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir, the contributors document the Bahá'ís' efforts to address America's "most challenging issue."
Author | : Loni Bramson |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498570038 |
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.
Author | : Loni Bramson |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498570046 |
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.
Author | : Anthony Lee |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2011-10-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004206841 |
One million Baha'is live in africa. This is the first academic volume to explore the history of this movement on the continent. The book discusses the diverse and contractivory American, Iranian, British, and African contributions to this new religious movement.
Author | : Louis Venters |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467117498 |
The Bah ' Faith is increasingly acknowledged as South Carolina's second-largest religion, part of the social fabric of the state. The earliest mentions of the distinctively interracial, theologically innovative faith community in the state date back to the Civil War. Black, white and indigenous South Carolinians defied racial and religious prejudices to join the religion during the tumultuous civil rights era. From the visit of the first Bah ' teacher in 1910 to the "Carolinian Pentecost" of the 1970s and beyond, the faith has deep roots in the Palmetto State. Author and Bah ' historian Louis Venters provides, for the first time, an overview of the first century of the Bah ' Faith in a state with one of its strongest followings.
Author | : Christopher Buck |
Publisher | : Kalimat Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781890688387 |
Author | : William Garlington |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005-08-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0313027439 |
The Baha'i Faith in America sets out to accomplish two main goals. The first is to introduce to the American reading public a religion whose name may be commonly mentioned or heard, yet in terms of its unique history, world-view, beliefs, and laws, is virtually unknown. Such categories provide the essential material for Part I. The second objective, which is the uniting thread of Part II, is to trace the historical development of the American Baha'i community from its earliest beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century up until the present day. The chapters in this section not only peruse the major events and introduce the leading personalities associated with American Baha'i history, they also trace significant themes, motifs, and issues that have characterized the community over the decades. Examples include early Baha'i connections with both American millenialism and metaphysical esotericism, to more recent associations with the Civil Rights Movement and the 1960s youth counterculture. In addition, the book's final chapters take a close look at some of the more controversial issues that have characterized American Baha'i community life over the past few decades. Here issues ranging in content from disagreements over differing styles of propogation to the freedom of expression allowed to Baha'i scholars are examined. In the process, the work reveals a dynamic and highly idealistic faith that is attempting to offer a model of religious community that is compatible with the continuing process of globalization.
Author | : Eddie S. Glaude Jr. |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-08-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199373140 |
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities in the face of limited or non-existent freedom. In this Very Short Introduction, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. explores the history and circumstances of African American religion through three examples: conjure, African American Christianity, and African American Islam. He argues that the phrase "African American religion" is meaningful only insofar as it describes how through religion, African Americans have responded to oppressive conditions including slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the pervasive and institutionalized discrimination that exists today. This bold claim frames his interpretation of the historical record of the wide diversity of religious experiences in the African American community. He rejects the common tendency to racialize African American religious experiences as an inherent proclivity towards religiousness and instead focuses on how religious communities and experiences have developed in the African American community and the context in which these developments took place. About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.
Author | : Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis |
Publisher | : Baha'i Publishing Trust |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781931847261 |
This groundbreaking work uncovers the role played by black people in the emergence of the Bah'i faith in North America. Drawing on a wide range of sources including personal essays, letters, and journals, it offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some extraordinary individuals.
Author | : Layli Maparyan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-03-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136485503 |
Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality – as distinct from religion per se – which invokes a metaphysically informed approach to activism.