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African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod

By Anthony B. Pinn , Allen Dwight Callahan (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2008
ISBN
978-1-349-53050-2, 978-0-230-61050-7
DOI
10.1057/9780230610507
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1116530 bytes)
Series
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 271\273
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
African Culture;Religious Studiesgeneral;History of Religion;Sociology of Religion;

Description

The biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues. Slavery and continued discrimination were given theological sanction through the Old Testament story of Ham, but what of his descendent Nimrod the hunter?

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