What Is African American Religion? : Facets series /

"Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief work asks the central question: What really is African American religion? Sketching the religious landscape of African American commun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pinn, Anthony B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religion
African Americans > Religion.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
RELIGION > Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Noirs americains > Religion.
Schwarze.
USA
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief work asks the central question: What really is African American religion? Sketching the religious landscape of African American communities today, Pinn makes explicit the tension in traditional conversations about Black religion that privilege either Christianity in particular or organizations (with doctrines and creeds) in general. Discussing the misunderstandings and historical inaccuracies of such views, Pinn offers an alternate theory of Black religion that begins with a basic push for embodied meaning as its core impulse"--Publisher description
Descripción Física:1 online resource (128 pages).
ISBN:9781451403824

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