African American Religious Life and the Story

In this new collection, Anthony B. Pinn, Allen Dwight Callahan, and contributors explore Genesis and the manner in which the suspicion against Nimrod attached itself to those of African descent, serving as the theological rationale and justification for the oppression of black bodies and the suppression of African cultural creativity.

Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. His publications include African American Humanist Principles: Living and Thinking Like the Children of Nimrod and (co-editor) Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic, both published by Palgrave Macmillan. Allen Dwight Callahan is Professor of New Testament at Seminário Teológico Batista do Nordeste in Bahia, Brazil. His publications include The Living Book: African Americans and the Bible and A Love Supreme: A History of the Johannine Tradition.

Introduction: "Figures of the True"
Nimrod as Hero
Who Is the Man?...: Nimrod, Afrocentrism, and the African American Dream
The Hunter and the Game: Reappropriating the Legend of Nimrod from an African American Theological Perspective
Nimrod and the South African Context
"Lest We Be Scattered Abroad:" Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black Religious Humanism in Harlem
"I am Black and Beautiful, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem:" African American Virtue Ethics and a Womanist Hermeneutics of Redemption
God of Restraint: An African American Humanist Interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel
The Story of Nimrod: The Struggle with Otherness and the Search for Identity
More than a Mighty Hunter: George Washington Williams, Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse and the Reclamation of Nimrod
Nimrod and Dead Prez: Walking Like a Warrior
Nimrod as Infamous
"The Strength of Collective Man:" Nimrod and the Tower of Babel
Nimrod: Paradigm of Future Oppressive Systems
Beyond the Curse of Noah: African American Pastoral Theology as Political
A Neutral Stance
A Tower of Pulpits
Reorientation by Reference to "Wrong Way" Makers: Evaluating a Modern Signifying Mythicization of Ancient Mythicization
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African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod

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