Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religious studies at Rice University and teaches courses on African American religion, history of black religious thought, and black theology. He is the author of over thirty-five books, including The New Disciples: A Novel (2015), 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).
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Introduction: Theology and the Canon of Black Religion Rethought New Preface Case Studies: Traditions and Their Existential Link 1. Serving the Loa: Vodou, Voodoo, and the Voodoo Spiritual Temple 2. Ashe! Santeria, Oshira-Voodoo, and Oyotunji African Village 3. The Great Mahdi Has Come! Islam, Nation of Islam, and the Minneapolis Study Group 4. What if God Were One of Us? Humanism and African Americans for Humanism Toward a Comparative Theological Framework 5. How Do We Talk about Religion? Religious Experience, Cultural Memory, and Theological Method 6. Theological Categories Twenty-Years Later Bibliography Index