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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781931847261 (alk. paper). 1931847266 (alk. paper) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
New Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Lights of the Spirit : Historical Portraits of Black Bahá'ís in North America, 1898-2000 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
WiIlmette, Illinois |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Baha'i Publishing |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2006 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 338 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Rarely does a book cover a historically and culturally important topic that has never been written about before. Yet Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá'ís in North America, 1898-2000 accomplishes precisely this through an absorbing collection of glimpses into the lives of some extraordinary individuals who devoted themselves to a common cause and made outstanding contributions toward building a unified society.<br/><br/>Edited by Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, a professor of English at Miami University in Ohio, and Richard Thomas, a professor of history at Michigan State University, the book brings to light the stories of a diverse group of people including attorney Louis Gregory, poet Robert Hayden, jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, Broadway actress Dorothy Champ, and Canadian singer Eddie Elliot, to name a few.<br/><br/>Lights of the Spirit is divided into two sections. Part one offers a helpful introduction to the Bahá'í Faith and six highly readable essays that comprehensively describe the black experience in the North American Baha'i community. Chapters by Etter-Lewis, Thomas, and others address African-Americans and the development of the Faith in the U.S. and Canada, contributions of African-American women, and the role African-Americans in the global expansion of the Baha'i Faith.<br/><br/>Part two contains documents from nine historically prominent African-American Bahá'ís, providing insights into how these remarkable individuals perceived themselves and the larger communities in which they lived. Here, readers will find creative and social commentaries, letters, and family histories. Many of the documents are previously unpublished. Written from a first-person point of view, they preserve a largely unknown history that expands our notions of African-American religious traditions.<br/><br/>The unique content of the book will appeal to readers interested in Black history, race relations, and the history of religion in North America. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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170 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Biography |
| Form subdivision |
Baha'i Faith |
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1725 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Black Americans |
| Form subdivision |
Baha'i Faith |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis |
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1726 |
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Editor |
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| Personal name |
Richard Thomas |
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448 |
| Relator term |
Editor |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Printed or electronic book |
