05044nam 22008415 450 991078108770332120191219181233.01-283-52780-497866138402570-230-61050-110.1057/9780230610507(CKB)2550000000003526(SSID)ssj0001656939(PQKBManifestationID)16439206(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001656939(PQKBWorkID)14989848(PQKB)10518438(SSID)ssj0000700906(PQKBManifestationID)12330847(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000700906(PQKBWorkID)10672109(PQKB)11254955(DE-He213)978-0-230-61050-7(MiAaPQ)EBC4001687(EXLCZ)99255000000000352620151222d2008 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrAfrican American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod[electronic resource] /edited by Anthony B. Pinn, Allen Dwight CallahanNew York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2008.1 online resource (288 p.) Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social JusticeBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-53050-6 1-4039-6827-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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?Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social JusticeEthnology—AfricaReligionReligion—HistoryReligion and sociologyBible—TheologyEthnicityAfrican Culturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411030Religious Studies, generalhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/1A0000History of Religionhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/1A7000Sociology of Religionhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X22210Biblical Studieshttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/1A3140Ethnicity Studieshttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X22180Ethnology—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.220.8/305896Pinn Anthony Bedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtCallahan Allen Dwightedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910781087703321African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod3828113UNINA