African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anthony B. Pinn, Allen Dwight Callahan

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 220.8/305896
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): PinnAnthony B; CallahanAllen Dwight
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod
• ISBN: 1-283-52780-4; 9786613840257; 0-230-61050-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781087703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice