Anthony B Pinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 334044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony B Pinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony B |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinn |
| SIGNATURE | PINN A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Is African American Religion?: Expanded Edition
To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation
Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 The religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the major Black denominations, a depiction that fails to account for the voices of those who not only challenged racism but also forced a confrontation with class and gender. Of these overlooked voices, none …
What’s the Theological Equivalent of a “Mannish Boy”? Learning a Lesson from Womanist Scholarship— A Humanist and Black Theologian Response
The Oxford Handbook of Humanism
The Oxford Handbook of Humanism aims to cover the history, the philosophical development, and the influence humanist thought and culture. As a system of thought that values human needs and experiences over supernatural concerns, humanism has gained greater attention amid the rapidly shifting demographics of religious communities, especially in Europe and North America. This outlook on the world has taken on global dimensions as well, with activis…
Oxford Handbook of Humanism
What Can Be Said? African American Religious Thought, Afro-Pessimism, and the Question of Hope
Current political conditions in the United States reflecting the socio-cultural dynamics of Trumpism have brought into question the viability of the traditional vocabulary and grammar of democracy. By extension, Trumpism raises questions concerning the political-social assumptions made by liberation theologies such as Womanist and Black theologies. Related to this, my essay seeks to provide sustained reflection on a central question: In light of …
This and That: On Humanism’s Contours
In the Wake of Obama’s Hope: Thoughts on Black Lives Matter, Moralism, and Re-imaging Race Struggle
Religion, Race, and Humanism
This chapter explores the history of humanism within African American communities. It positions humanist thinking and humanism-inspired activism as a significant way in which people of African descent in the United States have addressed issues of racial injustice. Beginning with critiques of theism found within the blues, moving through developments such as the literature produced by Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, to political ac…
Religion in the Age of Obama
Religion in the Age of Obama
"This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama's beliefs and t…
Humanism and the Challenge of Difference
Religion in the Age of Obama
This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama’s years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, and Islamophobia to international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama’s beliefs and…
Varieties of African American Religious Experience: Toward a Comparative Black Theology - 20th Anniversary Edition
Anthony Pinn's engrossing survey highlights the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ever-changing black religious quest in four non-Christian religious movements. Based on extensive research, travel, and interviews - and embellished with photos, bibliographies, and case studies - Pinn's work provides a fascinating look especially at Voodoo, Santeria, the Nation of Islam, and Black Humanism in the United …
On the Question at the End of Theodicy
This article argues that theodicy provides an insufficient response to suffering - one that often further victimizes those who suffering most. In it's place, I argue for a moralist response based on Albert Camus and W. E. B. Du Bois
Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought
The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology
Reading Du Bois through Religion and Religious Commitment
What Has the Black Church to Do with Public Life?
The role in public life of religious organizations such as black churches has been a contested and heated topic, with their advocates calling for them to have a major place in public discourse and the
The Tragic Vision of African American Religion – By Matthew V. Johnson
The End of God-TalkAn African American Humanist Theology: An African American humanist theology
Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, and in response to a central question—What is the look of a nontheistic theology?—Pinn provides the first systematic African American nontheistic theology. It expands the range of theological resources to include more of the mundane materials generally overlooked in African American theology. Through an appreciation of a complex sense of community that extends beyond a simple…
Why Can't I Be Both?”
This essay explores the nature and significance of blackness in relationship to an aesthetics of meaning, a method that offers insights into how religion, or the quest for complex subjectivity, is articulated through the visual arts. The essay sketches particular examples of blackness in relationship to aesthetics in a way that involves loose movement through particular periods and locations, ultimately coming to rest on the work of one particula…
What Is African American Religion?: Facets series
Teaching and Studying the Americas
This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist
Teaching and Studying the Americas: Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present
Introduction: Intersections of culture and religion in African-American communities
As a child of the blues, hip hop culture and rap music bring together the ‘best of both worlds’ of culture and religion respectively. The interrogation of cultural production by African-American scholars across fields is not a new phenomenon, however, a rigorous examination of the religious and theological contours of hip hop culture, such as rap music, are slowly beginning to take shape. In this Introduction, we contextualize one such attempt as…
Gettin’ grown’: Notes on gangsta rap music and notions of manhood
Rap music, culture and religion: Concluding thoughts
In this brief essay, I argue that the type of attention to rap music suggested by the various contributors to this special issue requires a rethinking of the shape, content, and proper vocabulary and grammar for marking and describing the religious. That is to say, when critically examined for their take on religion and religious experience, rap artists force theoretical complexity and methodological comfort with tension. They express this desire…
Gettin’ grown’: Notes on gangsta rap music and notions of manhood
On the Question at the End of Theodicy
This article argues that theodicy provides an insufficient response to suffering - one that often further victimizes those who suffering most. In it's place, I argue for a moralist response based on Albert Camus and W. E. B. Du Bois
Reading Du Bois through Religion and Religious Commitment
Gettin’ grown’: Notes on gangsta rap music and notions of manhood
Gettin’ grown’: Notes on gangsta rap music and notions of manhood
Why Lord: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology
Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism
Xodus: An African American Male Journey. Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher
Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916 . Lawrence S. Little
Rope Neckties and Lynchings: A Discussion of Terror as an Impetus for Black Religion
Elsewhere I have suggested that Black religion as a historically manifest push toward a liberated existence is in fact a response to the terror and dread of dehumanization experienced by Blacks from the period of slavery to the present. In making such a claim, several things are important. One of the most crucial is a discussion of the nature and source of this terror and dread, and in this essay I give attention to this point. I do so by discuss…
R ope N eckties and L ynchings: A D iscussion of T error as an I mpetus for B lack R eligion
Elsewhere I have suggested that Black religion as a historically manifest push toward a liberated existence is in fact a response to the terror and dread of dehumanization experienced by Blacks from the period of slavery to the present. In making such a claim, several things are important. One of the most crucial is a discussion of the nature and source of this terror and dread, and in this essay I give attention to this point. I do so by discuss…
Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism. Yvonne Chireau , Nathaniel Deutsch
Introduction: African American Religion Symposium
This essay introduces five articles in a Nova Religio symposium focusing on African American Religion. The essays provide some means for re-imagining the study of African American religion in ways that allow for a much better understanding of African American participation in traditional and new religious movements
Black Bodies in Pain and Ecstasy: Terror, Subjectivity, and the Nature of Black Religion
This article argues that at its core, black religion involves a quest or struggle for complex subjectivity. It is a wrestling against efforts to dehumanize those of African descent historically documented through the process of slavery,disenfranchisement, etc. This depiction of the nature of black religion does not promote a static reality, unchanged through the ages. Religion is not essentialized in that sense. Rather, religion's core is respons…
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery
Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic
In this book, contributors argue that the Black Church must begin to address the significance of sexuality if it is to actually present liberation as a mode of existence that fully appreciates the bod
African American Humanist Principles: Living and Thinking Like the Children of Nimrod
As Anthony Pinn argues in his latest collection, humanism comes in many colors. When more attention is given to issues of race as connected to other forms of oppression, it is easier to see the manner
The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959
have lived through three generations. I have heard the rebel yell, the mourns and groans of slavery and the death rattle in the throat of the expiring monster as he was forever destroyed. When Reverdy Cassius Ransom expressed this, he was reflecting back on almost ninety years of a life spent as a pastor, editor, politician, writer, civil rights leader, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In The Sage of Tawawa, Annetta L. Gomez-…
Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music
Journal Article Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music. Anthony B. Pinn (Ed.). New York: New York University Press, 2003, 192p.; $18.00 (paper) Get access Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas Old Dominion University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 89–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153121 Publi…
Sweaty Bodies in a Circle: Thoughts on the Subtle Dimensions of Black Religion as Protest
Carrying a Black body through this rather absurd world has not simply involved negative socio-political and economic arrangements for African Americans. Those who give careful consideration to the manner in which Black bodies move, occupy space, as well as the fluids issuing from them, will have noted the way in which the bodies also give off signs of resistance. In this article I pay attention to the manner in which sweat has served as a theolog…
Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era
Giving attention to three developments— “theological racism,” “racial interchange,” and “Christian interracialism” (p. 2)—Freedom's Coming discusses the shift in white southern theological discourse from rabid Christian racism to a concern with moral vision extending beyond a limited sense of racial specialness. The first section of the book (chapters 1–2) entails presentation of intersections between religious and political involvement by white …
Martin Luther King Jr.'s God, Humanist Sensibilities, and Moral Evil
This essay attends to the nature and meaning of moral evil through an interrogation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s personalism and African American humanism. Combining his modality of personalism with African American humanist sensibilities provides an opportunity to think about moral evil and theodicy in ways that do not collapse into redemptive suffering. This is done through a theological turn toward a doctrine of God that recognizes and apprecia…
Black Theology: A Survey of Its Past, Present, and Future
When considered as a whole, the genius of black theology involves an ability to shift and change, to reconceive itself in light of new understandings and alternate situations. From the initial work of figures such as James H. Cone and J. Deotis Roberts, through a second generation of thinkers such as Dwight Hopkins and James Evans, to more recent challenges offered by Eddie Glaude, Victor Anderson, and Anthony Pinn, black theology has given voice…
Black Religion and Aesthetics
A great deal of attention has been given to the sociopolitical and theological importance of Black Religion. However, of less academic concern up to this point is the aesthetic qualities that define m
African American Religious Cultures: [2 Volumes]
This encyclopedia offers the most comprehensive presentation available on the diversity and richness of religious practices among African Americans, from traditions predating the era of the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary religious movements. Like no previous reference,African American Religious Culturescaptures the full scope of African American religious identity, tracing the long history of African American engagement with spiritual …
Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora
Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
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