African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod

2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6827-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

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?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinn, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: "Figures of the True" Part I: Nimrod as Hero Who Is the Man?.: Nimrod, Afrocentrism, and the African American Dream; L. H. Butler, Jr. The Hunter and the Game: Reappropriating the Legend of Nimrod from an African American Theological Perspective; J. H. Evans, Jr. Nimrod and the South African Context; D. Farisani "Lest We Be Scattered Abroad:" Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black Religious Humanism in Harlem; J. M. Floyd-Thomas "I am Black and Beautiful, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem:" African American Virtue Ethics and a Womanist Hermeneutics of Redemption; S. Floyd-Thomas God of Restraint: An African American Humanist Interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel; A. B. Pinn The Story of Nimrod: The Struggle with Otherness and the Search for Identity; A. L. Pressley More than a Mighty Hunter: George Washington Williams, Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse and the Reclamation of Nimrod; A. Smith Nimrod and Dead Prez: Walking Like a Warrior; R. C. Watkins Part II: Nimrod as Infamous "The Strength of Collective Man:" Nimrod and the Tower of Babel; A. Dwight Callahan Nimrod: Paradigm of Future Oppressive Systems; J. Kirby Beyond the Curse of Noah: African American Pastoral Theology as Political; E. P. Wimberly Part III: A Neutral Stance A Tower of Pulpits; D. P. Andrews Reorientation by Reference to "Wrong Way" Makers: Evaluating a Modern Signifying Mythicization of Ancient Mythicization; T. Walker, Jr.

Über Autor(innen)

ANTHONY B PINN is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, USA. His publications include and (co-editor) , both published by Palgrave Macmillan.
 
ALLEN DWIGHT CALLAHAN is Professor of New Testament at Seminário Teológico Batista do Nordeste in Bahia, Brazil. His publications include .