The Bahá&#039;í Faith and African American Studies

Loni Bramson; Layli Maparyan

doi:10.5771/9781666900170

Summary

The Baha’i Faith and African American Studies: Perspectives on Racial Justice provides readers who may already have basic or even advanced familiarity with the struggle for racial justice in the United States with new material from a less well-known angle: that of members of the Baha’i Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony are central to their religious expression. Inside these pages, readers will find history, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir showcasing Black Baha’is as well as Baha’is from diverse backgrounds who are working to address America’s “most challenging issue.”

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0016-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0017-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 318
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
1. The Bahá’í Faith: A Brief Overview No access
2. The Vision of Race Unity: America’s Most Challenging Issue No access
3. The Present Moment No access
4. African American Studies as a Field of Action No access
5. Bahá’í Social Transformation Discourse No access
6. One Hundred Years of Racial Amity Work No access
7. The Chapters in This Volume No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Beginnings No access
3. Washington, DC No access
4. New York No access
5. Chicago No access
6. Other Urban Centers No access
7. Discussion and Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Defining the Civil Rights Era No access
2. Public Accommodations No access
3. Bahá’ís and Social Interaction No access
4. Voting Rights Act of 1965 No access
5. A Bahá’í Perspective on Voting and Governance No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. The Bahá’í Teachings on Race No access
2. Lived Experiences in Bahá’í Interracial Settings No access
3. Bahá’í Summer Youth Project in Greenville, South Carolina, 1964 No access
4. Interracial Community Building in Local Bahá’í Communities No access
5. The Merging Streams in the Academic World No access
6. Teaching Race Relations from a Bahá’í Perspective No access
7. Incorporating Bahá’í Themes into Scholarly Works on Race No access
8. 1. Understanding the Other Tradition No access
9. The Multiracial Unity Project No access
10. Faculty Development Seminar No access
11. Responding to the Impact of the O. J. Simpson Verdict: Student Race Relations Dialogues No access
12. The Multiracial Unity Living Experience (MRULE) No access
13. Black/Jewish Dialogue No access
14. Preparing for Retirement: My Final Course No access
15. Conclusion No access
16. Notes No access
17. Bibliography No access
1. The Universal House of Justice on the Ruhi Training Institute Program and Racial Justice No access
2. 1. Children’s Classes No access
  2. The Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program No access
  3. Study Circles No access
3. Studying the Ruhi Training Institute Program as a Means to Address U.S. Race Relations No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Individual and Collective Change and the Double Crusade No access
3. Individual-Level Development of Human Resources and Race Unity since 1996 No access
4. New Forms of Community-Building and Engagement since 1996 No access
5. Examples of Race-Work at the National Level No access
6. Examples of Race-Work at the Local Level No access
7. 1. Overview of FACT Surveys No access
  2. Religious Vitality No access
  3. Statistical Results No access
  4. Measuring Vitality No access
  5. FACT 2000 No access
  6. FACT 2008 No access
  7. FACT 2010 No access
  8. FACT 2015 No access
  9. FACT 2020 No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. Background No access
2. Previous Research No access
3. Narrative/Story No access
4. Methodology No access
5. 1. Question A: Have You Ever Personally Experienced Discrimination? No access
  2. Question B: How Would You Describe Race Relations in the United States Five Years from Now? No access
  3. Question C: How Do You Define Justice in Your Own Words? No access
6. Conclusion: A Framework for Action No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Notes No access
2. Bibliography No access
1. A Key to Abbreviations Used in This Chart No access
Index No access Pages 303 - 314
About the Contributors No access Pages 315 - 318