Terror and Triumph - Couverture souple

Pinn, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0800636015 ISBN 13 : 9780800636012

Editeur : Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

Given the unique history of African Americans and its diverse religious floweringin Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, Voodoo, and othersis there one fundamental meaning to black religion in America? What is the heart and soul of African American religious life?As a leader in both black religious studies and theology, Anthony Pinn has probed the dynamism and variety of African American religious expressions. In this work, which he also delivered as the Edward Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham, England, he searches out the basic structure of black religion, tracing the black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. Pinn finds in the terrors of enslavement of black bodies and subsequent oppressions the primal experience to which the black religious impulse provides a perennial and cumulative response. Oppressions entailed the denial of personhood and creation of an object: the negro. Slave auctions, punishments, and later, lynchings created an existential dread but also evoked a quest, a search, for complex subjectivity or authentic personhood that still fuels black religion today. Pinn's promising work offers a major new understanding of what it means to be black and religious in the United States.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities and professor of religion at Rice University and teaches courses on African American religion, the history of Black religious thought, humanism, and Black theology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of president's lifetime achievement award for volunteer service (2024). Pinn is also the author of more than thirty-five books, including, Varieties of African American Religious Experience, 20th Anniversary Edition (Fortress Press, 2017), Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition (Fortress Press, 2022) and What Is African American Religion?: Expanded Edition (Fortress Press, 2024).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0800636015
• ISBN 13: 9780800636012
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 292
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