Research Catalog

Title

Terror and triumph : the nature of Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn.

Author

Pinn, Anthony B.

Publication

• Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xxvi, 338 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Given the unique history of African Americans and their diverse religious flowering in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, voodoo, and others, what is the heart and soul of African American religious life? As a leader in both Black religious studies and theology, Anthony Pinn has probed the dynamism and variety of African American religious expressions. In this work, based on the Edward Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham, England, he searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. Pinn finds in the terrors of enslavement of Black bodies and subsequent oppressions the primal experience to which the Black religious impulse provides a perennial and cumulative response. Oppressions entailed the denial of personhood and creation of an object: the Negro. Slave auctions, punishments, and, later, lynchings created an existential dread but also evoked a quest, a search, for complex subjectivity or authentic personhood that still fuels Black religion today. In this 20th anniversary edition of Pinn's groundbreaking work, the author offers a new reflection on the argument in retrospect and invites a panel of five contemporary scholars to examine what it means for current and future scholarship. Contributors include Keri Day, Sylvester Johnson, Anthony G. Reddie, Calvin Warren, and Carol Wayne White.

Subject

• African Americans > Religion
• African American churches
• African Americans > Religious aspects > History
• African Americans
• Church history
• United States > Church history
• United States

Genre/Form

• Church history.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface to the Anniversary Edition -- Preface -- "Look, a Negro!" how the New World African became an object of history -- Part One: Constructing terror. "How much for a young Buck?" slave auction and identity -- Rope neckties : lynching and identity -- Part Two: Waging war. Houses of prayer in a hostile land : responses of Black religion to terror -- Covert practices : further responses of Black religion to terror -- "I'll make me a world" : Black religion as historical context -- Part Three: Seeking triumph. Crawling backward : toward a theory of Black religion's center -- Finding the center : methodological issues considered -- Part Four: Critical reflections. "We can feel the spirit in this!" : a Black pentecostal, Black Atlantic dialogue with Terror and triumph / Robert Beckford -- Reflections on Terror and triumph at twenty years : contributions and lingering questions / Keri Day -- Blackness, indigenous Africa, and the essence of Black religion in Terror and triumph : the nature of Black religion / Sylvester Johnson -- The triumph of Terror and triumph : the nature of Black religion / Anthony G. Reddie -- Rituals of reference : Anthony Pinn, Frantz Fanon, and ontological yearning / Calvin Warren -- Capturing the beauty of materialism : Black bodies, ontic desires, and processes of humanization / Carol Wayne White -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index to the main text.

Call Number

Sc E 23-707

ISBN

• 9781506474731
• 150647473X
• 9781506474748 (canceled/invalid)
• 1506474748 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023276281

OCLC

1292589274

Author

Pinn, Anthony B., author.

Title

Terror and triumph : the nature of Black religion / Anthony B. Pinn.

Publisher

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

20th anniversary edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

AUTH: RICE UNIVERSITY. 20TH ANNIVERSARY ED. REPRINT OF 2003 ED.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-707