African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: “Figures of the True”....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Hunter and the Game: Reappropriating the Legend of Nimrod from an African American Theological Perspective....Pages 15-26
God of Restraint: An African American Humanist Interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel....Pages 27-34
“I Am Black and Beautiful, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem …”: African American Virtue Ethics and a Womanist Hermeneutics of Redemption....Pages 35-51
“Lest We Be Scattered Abroad”: Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black Religious Humanism in Harlem....Pages 53-68
More than a Mighty Hunter: George Washington Williams, Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse and the Reclamation of Nimrod....Pages 69-84
The Story of Nimrod: A Struggle with Otherness and the Search for Identity....Pages 85-95
Nimrod: Reading the Bible with South African Eyes....Pages 97-109
Nimrod and Dead Prez: Walking Like a Warrior....Pages 111-120
Nimrod and the South African Context....Pages 121-132
Who Is the Man …?: Nimrod, Afrocentricism, and the African American Dream....Pages 133-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Strength of Collective Man: Nimrod and the Tower of Babel....Pages 147-162
Nimrod: Paradigm of Future Oppressive Systems....Pages 163-178
Beyond the Curse of Noah: African American Pastoral Theology as Political....Pages 179-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
A Tower of Pulpits....Pages 193-213
Reorientation by Reference to “Wrong Way” Makers: Evaluating a Modern Signifying Mythicization of an Ancient Mythicization....Pages 215-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-271