Bibliography: #BIB28503

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB28503
reference type	Book Section
title	Isolated Believer : Alain Locke, Baha'i Secularist
book title	New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
author	Weinfeld, David
editor	African American Intellectual History Society. Annual Conference (1st : 2016 : Chapel Hill N.C.)
series editor	Blain, Keisha N., Cameron, Christopher and Farmer, Ashley D.
year	2018
publisher	Northwestern University Press
place published	Evanston, Illinois
ISBN	9780810138124 (pbk. alk. paper) 9780810138131 (cloth alk. paper) 9780810138148 (ebook)
abstract	In 1935, at age fifty, the Harlem Renaissance writer Alain LeRoy Locke, a philosophy professor at Howard University, contributed a chapter to his friend Horace Kallen’s volumeAmerican Philosophy Today and Tomorrow. In a biographical preamble, Locke described himself as “more of a pagan than a Puritan” and “more of a humanist than a pragmatist.” He then declared himself a “universalist in religion” and a “cultural cosmopolitan” and labeled his philosophical outlook “cultural pluralism and value relativism.” When Locke used the term “universalist in religion,” he was subtly referring to his adherence to the Baha’i faith....
notes	LCCN 2018023769. Edited by Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer. Includes index. "In March 2016 we organized the inaugural conference of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), a scholarly organization founded in 2014 to foster dialogue about researching, writing, and teaching black thought and culture."
language	English
keywords	LOCKE, ALAIN LEROY; BIOGRAPHY; SECULARISM
pages	83–98
call number	E185.89.I56 A37 2016
accession number	20536424

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