What Is African American Religion?
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Is there really a monolithic “black church”? Distilling the arguments of Pinn’s important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief work asks the central question: What really is African American religion? Sketching the religious landscape of African American communities today, Pinn makes explicit the tension in traditional conversations about black religion that privilege either Christianity in particular or organizations (with doctrines and creeds) in general. Discussing the misunderstandings and historical inaccuracies of such views, Pinn offers an alternate theory of black religion that begins with a basic push for embodied meaning as its core impulse.
- Title: What Is African American Religion?
- Author: Anthony B. Pinn
- Series: Facets Series
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: African Americans › Religion
- Resource ID: LLS:WHAFRAMERRELPINN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-15T04:30:57Z
Dr. Anthony Pinn’s publications range from early explorations of the problem of moral evil, to ongoing interests in African American humanist positions, efforts to pay attention to the biophysical and discursive weight of bodies, and ongoing attention to theory and method in the study of African American religion, specifically, and theology and religious studies more generally.