African American religious life and the story of Nimrod / edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinn, Anthony B.

Callahan, Allen Dwight.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nimrod (Biblical figure)--Legends.

Nimrod.

Nimrod (Biblical figure).

Mythology, African.

Islamic legends.

Genre:

Legends.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction: "Figures of the true" / Allen Dwight Callahan

The hunter and the game : reappropriating the legend of Nimrod from an African American theological perspective / James H. Evans, Jr.

God of restraint : an African American humanist interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Anthony B. Pinn

"I am black and beautiful, o ye daughters of Jerusalem" : African American virtue ethics and a womanist hermeneutics of redemption / Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas

"Lest we be scattered abroad" : Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black religious humanism in Harlem / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas

More than a mighty hunter : George Washington Williams, nineteenth-century racialized discourse, and the reclamation of Nimrod / Abraham Smith

The story of Nimrod : a struggle with otherness and the search for identity / Arthur L. Pressley

Nimrod : reading the Bible with South African eyes / Elelwani B. Farisani

Nimrod and dead prez : walking like a warrior / Ralph C. Watkins

Nimrod and the South African context / Dorothy M. Farisani

Who is the man? : Nimrod, Afrocentricism, and the African American dream / Lee H. Butler, Jr.

"The strength of collective man" : Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Allen Dwight Callahan

Nimrod : paradigm of future oppressive systems / Jimmy Kirby

Beyond the curse of Noah : African American pastoral theology as political / Edward P. Wimberly

A tower of pulpits / Dale P. Andrews

Reorientation by reference to "wrong way" makers : evaluating a modern signifying mythicization of an ancient mythicization / Theodore Walker, Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-265) and index.

ISBN:

1403968276

9781403968272

OCLC:

123955041

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