Can I read No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community (Other Southerners) on EtoBox?

No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community (Other Southerners) by Louis Venters is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community (Other Southerners) about?

“A richly detailed study of the rise of the Bahá’í Faith in South Carolina. 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 Race in America__ “A pioneering study of how and why the Bahá’í Faith became the second largest religious community in South Carolina. Carefully researched, the story told here fills a significant gap in our knowledge of South Carolina's rich and diverse religious history.”—Charles H. Lippy, coauthor of __Religion in Contemporary America__ The emergence of a cohesive interracial fellowship in Jim Crow-era South Carolina was unlikely and dangerous. 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. 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. De

Who reads No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina's Bahá'í Community (Other Southerners)?

Author

Louis Venters

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813061078

Category

history

Subjects

Science, History, Islam

Rating

4.7 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14