African American religious life and the story of Nimrod
By: edited by Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan
Contributors: Pinn, Anthony B; Callahan, Allen Dwight
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781403968272
Subjects: Nimrod -- (Biblical figure) -- Legends; Mythology, African; Legends, Islamic
Genres: Legends
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-265) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Figures of the true" / Allen Dwight Callahan; title: The hunter and the game : reappropriating the legend of Nimrod from an African American theological perspective / James H. Evans, Jr.; title: God of restraint : an African American humanist interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Anthony B. Pinn; title: "I am black and beautiful, o ye daughters of Jerusalem" : African American virtue ethics and a womanist hermeneutics of redemption / Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas; title: "Lest we be scattered abroad" : Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black religious humanism in Harlem / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas; title: More than a mighty hunter : George Washington Williams, nineteenth-century racialized discourse, and the reclamation of Nimrod / Abraham Smith; title: The story of Nimrod : a struggle with otherness and the search for identity / Arthur L. Pressley; title: Nimrod : reading the Bible with South African eyes / Elelwani B. Farisani; title: Nimrod and dead prez : walking like a warrior / Ralph C. Watkins; title: Nimrod and the South African context / Dorothy M. Farisani; title: Who is the man? : Nimrod, Afrocentricism, and the African American dream / Lee H. Butler, Jr.; title: "The strength of collective man" : Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Allen Dwight Callahan; title: Nimrod : paradigm of future oppressive systems / Jimmy Kirby; title: Beyond the curse of Noah : African American pastoral theology as political / Edward P. Wimberly; title: A tower of pulpits / Dale P. Andrews; title: Reorientation by reference to "wrong way" makers : evaluating a modern signifying mythicization of an ancient mythicization / Theodore Walker, Jr