Anthony B. Pinn

The End of God-Talk (eBook, ePUB)

An African American Humanist Theology

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Produktbeschreibung

In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists. Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, Pinn poses a crucial question: What is a non-theistic theology?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199913244
• Artikelnr.: 39945479

Autorenporträt

Anthony Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, as well as Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies Think Tank. His areas of research include African American religious thought, religion and popular culture, constructive theologies, and African American religious aesthetics. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including What Is African American Religion?, Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought, and Understanding & Transforming the Black Church.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on Terminology
Introduction
Chapter One: The Ordinary as Theological Source Material
Chapter Two: Community as Centering Category
Chapter Three: The Humanist Human - Self, Subject, Subjectivity
Chapter Four: On Theologizing Symmetry
Chapter Five: African American Humanist Ethics
Chapter Six: Humanist Celebration and the Ritualizing of Life
Conclusion: Theologizing at the End of God-Talk
Bibliography