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African American religious life and the story of Nimrod /
The biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues. Slavery and continued discrimination were given theological sanction through the Old Testament story of Ham, but what of his descendent Nimrod the hunter?
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "Figures of the True" * Part I: Nimrod as Hero * Who Is the Man? ... : Nimrod, Afrocentrism, and the African American Dream
- Lee H. Butler, Jr. * The Hunter and the Game: Reappropriating the Legend of Nimrod from an African American Theological Perspective
- James H. Evans, Jr. * Nimrod and the South African Context
- Dorothy Farisani * "Lest We Be Scattered Abroad:" Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black Religious Humanism in Harlem
- Juan M. Floyd-Thomas * "I am Black and Beautiful, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem:" African American Virtue Ethics and a Womanist Hermeneutics of Redemption
- Stacey Floyd-Thomas * God of Restraint: An African American Humanist Interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel
- Anthony B. Pinn * The Story of Nimrod: The Struggle with Otherness and the Search for Identity
- Arthur L. Pressley * More than a Mighty Hunter: George Washington Williams, Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse and the Reclamation of Nimrod
- Abraham Smith * Nimrod and Dead Prez: Walking Like a Warrior
- Ralph C. Watkins * Part II: Nimrod as Infamous * "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 * Part III: A Neutral Stance * A Tower of Pulpits
- Dale P. Andrews * Reorientation by Reference to "Wrong Way" Makers: Evaluating a Modern Signifying Mythicization of Ancient Mythicization
- Theodore Walker, Jr.