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Terror and triumph : the nature of Black religion, 20th Anniversary Edition.

What is the heart and soul of African American religious life? Anthony Pinn searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. In this new edition, Pinn reflects on the argument and invites a panel of five scholars to examine...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pinn, Anthony B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minnesota : 1517 Media, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Anniversary Edition
  • Preface
  • 1. "Look, a Negro!": How the New World African Became an Object of History
  • Framing the Initial Contact
  • The African as a "Problem": Phase One
  • The African as a "Problem": Phase Two, or Slavery
  • Slavery and Dehumanization
  • Dehumanization and Postslavery America
  • Part One: Constructing Terror
  • 2. "How Much for a Young Buck?": Slave Auction and Identity
  • Slavery and the Business of Production
  • The Middle Passage
  • The Other "Middle Passage"
  • Slave Auctions: Peddling Flesh
  • Slave Trading and Social Arrangements
  • Slave Auctions and Historical Displacement: Objects Defined
  • Slave Auctions as Ritual of Reference
  • 3. Rope Neckties: Lynching and Identity
  • The Price of Freedom
  • Disenfranchisement and Movement
  • The Good Ol' Days: Social Order and Popular Punishment
  • Blacks and the Practice of Lynching
  • Rope, Violence, and Social Control
  • Destruction of Flesh and the Containment of Chaos
  • Lynching as Ritual of Reference
  • Part Two: Waging War
  • 4. Houses of Prayer in a Hostile Land: Responses of Black Religion to Terror
  • Blacks and Religion
  • The Art of Christianization
  • Blacks and Independent Religious Institutions
  • Religion, Socioeconomic Transformation, and Political Liberation
  • Religion, Conduct, and Aesthetics as Liberation
  • Spiritual Practices, Ecstatic Behavior, and Liberation
  • Theological Rhetoric as Liberation
  • 5. Covert Practices: Further Responses of Black Religion to Terror
  • Blacks and Their Proper Religion
  • Religion and Socioeconomic Development as Liberation
  • Health and Aesthetics as Liberation
  • Ethical Conduct as Liberation
  • Theology of Special-ness as Liberation
  • Theological Anthropology on Its Head
  • Louis Farrakhan and the Nation's Agenda
  • 6. "I'll Make Me a World": Black Religion as Historical Context
  • Fragile Cultural Memory and the Study of Religion
  • Method, Part One: Archaeology as Metaphor and Practice
  • Method, Part Two: Archaeology and the Hermeneutic of Style
  • Hermeneutic of Style and the Body
  • Display of Black Bodies: Expressive and Decorative Culture
  • Bodies Celebrated: Visual Arts and Literature
  • Bodies in Motion: The Ethics of Perpetual Rebellion
  • Part Three: Seeking Triumph
  • 7. Crawling Backward: Toward a Theory of Black Religion's Center
  • Dehumanization and Subjectivity
  • Conversion Experience and Complex Subjectivity
  • Conversion and the Nature of Religion
  • Black Religion as Quest for Complex Subjectivity
  • Experiencing Religion
  • Why Is This Religion?
  • 8. Finding the Center: Methodological Issues Considered
  • Psychology of Religion and Centering
  • Psychology of Religion and the Hermeneutic of Inner Meaning
  • History of Religions and the Hermeneutic of the Ontological Dimension
  • Art History and the Meaning of Things