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African American religious life and the story of Nimrod / edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan.

Contributor(s): Pinn, Anthony B | Callahan, Allen Dwight
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 271 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1403968276 (alk. paper); 9781403968272 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Nimrod (Biblical figure) -- Legends | Mythology, African | Islamic legendsDDC classification: 220.8/305896 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.

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.

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