Bibliography: RALVSET5

key	RALVSET5
title	Isolated Believer : Alain Locke, Baha'i Secularist
author	Weinfeld, David
item type	Book section
publication year	2018
date	2018
publication title	New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
ISBN	9780810138124 (pbk. alk. paper) 9780810138131 (cloth alk. paper) 9780810138148 (ebook)
abstract note	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....
pages	83-98
publisher	Northwestern University Press
place	Evanston, Illinois
language	English
manual tags	BIOGRAPHY; LOCKE, ALAIN LEROY; SECULARISM
editor	African American Intellectual History Society. Annual Conference (1st : 2016 : Chapel Hill N. C.)
series editor	Blain, Keisha N.; Cameron, Christopher; Farmer, Ashley D.