No Jim Crow Church: The Origins Of South Carolina's Bah?? Community (other Sout [Hardcover]

A richly detailed study of the rise of the Bah?? Faith in South Carolina. There isnt 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 American History
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In No Jim Crow Church, Louis Venters recounts the unlikely emergence of a cohesive interracial fellowship in South Carolina, tracing the history of the community from the end of the nineteenth century through the civil rights era. By joining the Bah?? Faith, blacks and whites not only defied Jim Crow but also rejected their societys religious and social restrictions.
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The religion, which emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind, arrived in the United States from the Middle East via northern urban areas. As early as 1910, Bah?? teachers began settling in South Carolina, where the Bah?? Faith is currently the largest religious minority. Venters presents an organizational, social, and intellectual history of South Carolinas early Bah?? movement and relates developments within the community to changes in society at large, with particular attention to race relations and the civil rights struggle. He argues that the states Bah??s represent a significant, sustained, spiritually based challenge to the ideology and structures of white male Protestant supremacy. His research provides a fascinating study of an unlikely movements rise to prominence and the role of the South Carolina Bah?? community in the cultural and structural evolution of a new world religion.
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