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No Jim Crow Church - The Origins of South Carolina's Baha'i Community (Paperback)
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No Jim Crow Church - The Origins of South Carolina's Baha'i Community (Paperback)
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The emergence of a cohesive interracial fellowship in Jim Crow-era
South Carolina was unlikely and dangerous. However, members of the
Baha'i Faith in the Palmetto State rejected segregation, broke away
from religious orthodoxy, and defied the odds, eventually becoming
the state's largest religious minority. The religion, which
emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind, arrived in the
United States from the Middle East at the end of the nineteenth
century via urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest. Expatriate
South Carolinians converted and when they returned home, they
brought their newfound religion with them. Despite frequently being
the targets of intimidation, and even violence, by neighbors, the
Ku Klux Klan, law enforcement agencies, government officials, and
conservative clergymen, the Baha'is remained resolute in their
faith and their commitment to an interracial spiritual democracy.
In the latter half of the twentieth century, their numbers
continued to grow, from several hundred to over twenty thousand. In
No Jim Crow Church, Louis Venters traces the history of South
Carolina's Baha'i community from its early origins through the
civil rights era and presents an organizational, social, and
intellectual history of the movement. He relates developments
within the community to changes in society at large, with
particular attention to race relations and the civil rights
struggle. Venters argues that the Baha'is 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 Baha'i Faith in the Deep
South played a role in the cultural and structural evolution of the
religion.
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