The life and thought of the great African American mystic Howard Thurman (1900-1981)
Subtitle: religious leader and spiritual teacher
By: Richard A. Rose ; with a foreword by Cain Hope Felder.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773447905
Subjects: Thurman, Howard, -- 1900-1981
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social context and cultural ethos; title: African-Americans in search of an American identity; title: The search for an African-American religious heritage; title: Community as ideal: individual and social; title: Transformation through religious experience; title: Community as ideal; title: Religious experience: personal transformation; title: Religious experience: social transformation; title: Diversity in harmony:; title: The functional aspect of religious traditions; title: Religious traditions and the concept of "function"; title: "Men who've walked with god"; title: Fellowship church:; title: A model for interfaith praxis; title: A church is born; title: Fellowship church in worship and meditation; title: The growing edge; title: Keeping the dream alive; title: An assessment of Howard Thurman's; title: Philosophy of religious pluralism; title: Assessing the assumptions; title: Assessing the character of authenticity; title: The implication for the Arican-American Religious tradition.