| What Is African American Religion?: Facets Series Contributor(s): Pinn, Anthony B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0800698460 ISBN-13: 9780800698461 Publisher: Fortress Press OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Church - History - Religion | Christianity - Denominations |
| Dewey: 200.899 |
| LCCN: 2011015056 |
| Series: Facets |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 4.3" W x 7.04" (0.26 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |