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Terror and Triumph

The Nature of Black Religion, 20th Anniversary Edition

ISBN-13: 9781506474731
Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
Edited by Anthony B. Pinn
Price: AUD $62.99
Stock: 10 in stock
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Local release date: 21/07/2022
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 260 pages Weight: 318g
Categories: Church history [HRCC2]

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Author Biography
Google Preview: Given the unique history of African Americans and their diverse religious flowering in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, voodoo, and others, 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, based on 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. In this 20th anniversary edition of Pinn's groundbreaking work, the author offers a new reflection on the argument in retrospect and invites a panel of five contemporary scholars to examine what it means for current and future scholarship. Contributors include Keri Day, Sylvester Johnson, Anthony G. Reddie, Calvin Warren, and Carol Wayne White.; 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, history of Black religious thought, humanism, and Black theology. He is the author of over thirty-five books, including The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology (2012), Varieties of African American Religious Experience (Fortress Press, 1998), and Why, Lord? Suffering and Evil in Black Theology (1995).; Google Preview content