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The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition
Given the unique history of African Americans and their diverse religious flowering in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, voodoo, and others, wh...
An African American Humanist Theology
In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this a...
How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist
A former African American minister reveals his unusual journey from faith to atheism. Anthony Pinn preached his first sermon at age twelve. At eightee...
While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a m...
Essays on Race, Religion and Popular Culture
Who are the "Nones"? What does humanism say about race, religion and popular culture? How do race, religion and popular culture inform and affect huma...
Suffering and Evil in Black Theology
In Why, Lord? scholar of religion Pinn describes and analyzes this African American tradition of theodicy: of understanding how a good God could permi...
This volume, co-authored by a black minister and a black theologian, provides an overview of the shape and history of major black religious bodies: Me...
Toward a Comparative Black Theology - 20th Anniversary Edition
Twenty years ago, Anthony Pinnโs engrossing survey highlighted the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ev...
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Living and Thinking Like the Children of Nimrod
As Anthony Pinn argues in his latest collection, humanism comes in many colors. When more attention is given to issues of race as connected to other f...
Black theology tends to be a theology about no-body. Though one might assume that black and womanist theology have already given significant attention...
Expanded Edition
Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Anthony B. Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this ...
Religion, Art, and Presence Together
In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and ot...
Among topics of the entries are African Americans in various Christian denominations, Catimbรณ, maroons, the Nation of Islam, the Orisha religion in T...
Humanism and the Challenge of Race
The future of the United States rests in many ways on how the ongoing challenge of racial injustice in the country is addressed. Yet, humanists remain...
What is the nature and purpose of the Black Church? What is the relationship of the scholar of religion to the Black Church? While black churches have...
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This encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive presentation available on the diversity and richness of religious practices among African Americans, f...
Introduction -- Historical context of the African American religious experience -- Development of the African American religious experience -- Black s...
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a...
Mapping the New Terrain in the US
Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora
A great deal of attention has been given to the sociopolitical and theological importance of Black Religion. However, of less academic concern up to t...
Publisher Fact Sheet Offers a snap shot of the Black Church today, highlighting its worship, its approach to doctrine, and its role in social activism...
An Outline of Pauli Murray's Religious Life and Theology
The history of social protest such as the civil rights movement displays the manner in which religious commitment and sociopolitical vision have entai...
Reflections on the Relationship between Music and Religion
The intersection of religion and music offers opportunity for a profound exploration of meaning-making. Musical lyrics create a rich narrative that re...
A creative and unique approach to the history of African American religion, offering a reader-friendly depiction of the major themes and issues confro...
Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness
Anthony Pinn examines how hip hop artists challenge white supremacist definitions of Blackness by challenging white distinctions between life and deat...
The role in public life of religious organizations such as black churches has been a contested and heated topic, with their advocates calling for them...
"In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and o...
Racism, Inequity and Exclusion in the USA