ISBN:
9780230610507
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
Series Statement:
Black Religion / Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Parallel Title:
Print version Pinn, A African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod
DDC:
301
Keywords:
African Americans--Religion
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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?
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: "Figures of the True" -- Section One: Nimrod as Hero -- 1 The Hunter and the Game: Reappropriating the Legend of Nimrod from an African American Theological Perspective -- 2 God of Restraint: An African American Humanist Interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel -- 3 "I Am Black and Beautiful, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem…": African American Virtue Ethics and a Womanist Hermeneutics of Redemption -- 4 "Lest We Be Scattered Abroad": Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black Religious Humanism in Harlem -- 5 More than a Mighty Hunter: George Washington Williams, Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse and the Reclamation of Nimrod -- 6 The Story of Nimrod: A Struggle with Otherness and the Search for Identity -- 7 Nimrod: Reading the Bible with South African Eyes -- 8 Nimrod and Dead Prez: Walking Like a Warrior -- 9 Nimrod and the South African Context -- 10 Who Is the Man…?: Nimrod, Afrocentricism, and the African American Dream -- Section Two: Nimrod as Infamous -- 11 The Strength of Collective Man: Nimrod and the Tower of Babel -- 12 Nimrod: Paradigm of Future Oppressive Systems -- 13 Beyond the Curse of Noah: African American Pastoral Theology as Political -- Section Three: A Neutral Stance -- 14 A Tower of Pulpits -- 15 Reorientation by Reference to "Wrong Way" Makers: Evaluating a Modern Signifying Mythicization of an Ancient Mythicization -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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