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African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod / edited by A. Pinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Religion.
- Religion--History.
- Religion and sociology.
- Bible--Study and teaching.
- Bible.
- Race.
- African Culture.
- History of Religion.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Biblical Studies.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- African Culture.
- Religion.
- History of Religion.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Biblical Studies.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2008.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues. Slavery and continued discrimination were given theological sanction through the Old Testament story of Ham, but what of his descendent Nimrod the hunter?
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613840257
- 9781283527804
- 1283527804
- 9780230610507
- 0230610501
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