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African American religious life and the story of Nimrod

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African American religious life and the story of Nimrod / edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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  • Pinn, Anthony B.
  • Callahan, Allen Dwight.
Description
xii, 271 p.; 22 cm.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-265) 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.
Call Number
Sc D 08-1774
ISBN
  • 1403968276 (alk. paper)
  • 9781403968272 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007016610
OCLC
123955041
Title
African American religious life and the story of Nimrod / edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan.
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-265) and index.
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Pinn, Anthony B.
Callahan, Allen Dwight.
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Sc D 08-1774
*PDB 08-122
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