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Visions of a better world : Howard Thurman's pilgrimage to India and the origins of African American nonviolence / Quinton H. Dixie & Peter Eisenstadt.
Van Pelt Library BX6495.T53 D49 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixie, Quinton Hosford.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981--Travel--India.
- Thurman, Howard.
- Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--History--20th century.
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981--Political and social views.
- Nonviolence--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Nonviolence.
- Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- African American theologians--Biography.
- African American theologians.
- African American Baptists--Biography.
- African American Baptists.
- Civil rights.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- African American pacifists.
- Political and social views.
- Travel.
- United States.
- India.
- African American pacifists--Biography.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Civil rights--United States--Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 246 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- This is a biography of African-American theologian and educator Howard Thurman (1899-1981). The authors (academics affiliated with the Howard Thurman Papers Project) focus particularly on Thurman's 1935 trip to India and meeting with Mohandas K. ("Mahatma") Gandhi, arguing that the meeting played a key role in the evolution of Thurman's intellectual and spiritual life and allowed him to fashion a distinctly African-American approach to nonviolence and civil disobedience that would prove to be extremely influential on the civil rights movement in the years following. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Southern boy, Morehouse man, Rochester scholar
- Starting a career
- Planning the pilgrimage of friendship
- The Negro Delegation in India
- What Thurman learned from India
- Thurman's war and the creation of the Fellowship Church
- Epilogue: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus and the disinherited.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807000458
- 0807000450
- OCLC:
- 683593662
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