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UNINA9910781087703321 |
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Titolo |
African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anthony B. Pinn, Allen Dwight Callahan |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-52780-4 |
9786613840257 |
0-230-61050-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Collana |
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Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology—Africa |
Religion |
Religion—History |
Religion and sociology |
Bible—Theology |
Ethnicity |
African Culture |
Religious Studies, general |
History of Religion |
Sociology of Religion |
Biblical Studies |
Ethnicity Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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? |
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