LEADER 05044nam 22008415 450 001 9910781087703321 005 20191219181233.0 010 $a1-283-52780-4 010 $a9786613840257 010 $a0-230-61050-1 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230610507 035 $a(CKB)2550000000003526 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001656939 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16439206 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001656939 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14989848 035 $a(PQKB)10518438 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000700906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12330847 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000700906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10672109 035 $a(PQKB)11254955 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-61050-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4001687 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000003526 100 $a20151222d2008 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrican American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Anthony B. Pinn, Allen Dwight Callahan 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aBlack Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-349-53050-6 311 $a1-4039-6827-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: "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. 330 $aThe biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues. Slavery and continued discrimination were given theological sanction through the Old Testament story of Ham, but what of his descendent Nimrod the hunter? 410 0$aBlack Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice 606 $aEthnology?Africa 606 $aReligion 606 $aReligion?History 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aBible?Theology 606 $aEthnicity 606 $aAfrican Culture$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411030 606 $aReligious Studies, general$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/1A0000 606 $aHistory of Religion$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/1A7000 606 $aSociology of Religion$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X22210 606 $aBiblical Studies$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/1A3140 606 $aEthnicity Studies$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/X22180 615 0$aEthnology?Africa. 615 0$aReligion. 615 0$aReligion?History. 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aBible?Theology. 615 0$aEthnicity. 615 14$aAfrican Culture. 615 24$aReligious Studies, general. 615 24$aHistory of Religion. 615 24$aSociology of Religion. 615 24$aBiblical Studies. 615 24$aEthnicity Studies. 676 $a220.8/305896 702 $aPinn$b Anthony B$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aCallahan$b Allen Dwight$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781087703321 996 $aAfrican American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod$93828113 997 $aUNINA