No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813054079 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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He relates developments within the community to changes in society at large, with particular attention to race relations and the civil rights struggle. However, members of the Bahá’í Faith in the Palmetto State rejected segregation, broke away from religious orthodoxy, and defied the odds, eventually becoming the state’s largest religious minority. Lippy, coauthor of Religion in Contemporary America The emergence of a cohesive interracial fellowship in Jim Crow-era South Carolina was unlikely and dangerous. Venters argues that the Bahá’ís in South Carolina represented a significant, sustained, spiritually-based challenge to the ideology and structures of white male Protestant supremacy, while exploring how the emergence of the Bahá’í Faith in the Deep South played a role in the cultural and structural evolution of the religion. . There isn’t another study out there even remotely like this one.”—Paul Harvey, coauthor of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Rac
D. Abercrombie said Five Stars. Excellent work by Dr. Venters, can't wait for his next book!
The community’s fascinating history is told in No Jim Crow Church.”—Huffington Post. “South Carolina is home to the second largest Bahá’í population in the United States