The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology

by Anthony B. Pinn

Overview

In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists. Rejecting the assumption of theism as the African American orientation, Pinn poses a crucial question: What is a non-theistic theology?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199913244
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/21/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Anthony Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, as well as Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies Think Tank. His areas of research include African American religious thought, religion and popular culture, constructive theologies, and African American religious aesthetics. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including What Is African American Religion?, Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought, and Understanding & Transforming the Black Church.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on Terminology
Introduction
Chapter One: The Ordinary as Theological Source Material
Chapter Two: Community as Centering Category
Chapter Three: The Humanist Human - Self, Subject, Subjectivity
Chapter Four: On Theologizing Symmetry
Chapter Five: African American Humanist Ethics
Chapter Six: Humanist Celebration and the Ritualizing of Life
Conclusion: Theologizing at the End of God-Talk
Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

"The End of God-Talk is a major contribution to theological discourse by a leading interpreter of African American religion."— James H. Cone, Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary

"Those studying theistic theology, and the older and more recent forms of atheism, will take great interest in this significant volume. It will also appeal to scholars concerned with problematizing the category of religion."—CHOICE

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