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  • What Has the Black Church to do with Public Life?

    by A. Pinn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The role in public life of religious organizations such as black churches has been a contested and heated topic, with their advocates calling for them to have a major place in public discourse and their critiques demanding their silence in public if not their total destruction. This book offers a creative and compelling way to think about this dilemma. Unlike some, it does not deny the effort on ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Understanding and Transforming the Black Church

    by Anthony B. Pinn ...
    What is the nature and purpose of the Black Church? What is the relationship of the scholar of religion to the Black Church? While black churches have been a major component of the religious landscape of African American communities for centuries, little critical attention has been given to these questions outside an apologetic stance. This book seeks to correct this trend by examining some of the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberation Theologies in the United States

    An Introduction

    by Stacey M Floyd-Thomas, Anthony B Pinn ...
    Liberation Theologies in the United States reveals how the critical use of religion can be utilized to challenge and combat oppression in America.In the nascent United States, religion often functioned as a justifier of oppression. Yet while religious discourse buttressed such oppressive activities as slavery and the destruction of native populations, oppressed communities have also made use of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Jams

    Reflections on the Relationship between Music and Religion

    by Anthony B. Pinn ...
    The intersection of religion and music offers opportunity for a profound exploration of meaning-making. Musical lyrics create a rich narrative that reflects not only personal experiences but also broader cultural, social, and spiritual realities. Over the years, Anthony Pinn has explored this intersection, shaped by academic inquiry, personal reflection, and an evolving understanding of the world ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Australian Musical

    From the beginning

    by Peter Pinne, Peter Wyllie Johnston ...
    Musical theatre has a special place in the hearts of Australians. Whether it is The Boy from Oz, Bran Nue Dae or Muriel's Wedding, we love to see Australian stories on the big stage with all the glamour, energy and vibrancy a musical can offer.However magical they are on stage, performances leave behind few traces. Australia has a rich, hidden history of achievement in musical theatre which is now ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Humanism

    Essays on Race, Religion and Popular Culture

    by Anthony B. Pinn ...
    Who are the "Nones"? What does humanism say about race, religion and popular culture? How do race, religion and popular culture inform and affect humanism?The demographics of the United States are changing, marked most profoundly by the religiously unaffiliated, or what we have to come to call the "Nones". Spread across generations in the United States, this group encompasses a wide range of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Terror and Triumph

    The Nature of Black Religion

    by Anthony B. Pinn ...
    Given the unique history of African Americans and their diverse religious flowering in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, voodoo, and others, what is the heart and soul of African American religious life?As a leader in both Black religious studies and theology, Anthony Pinn has probed the dynamism and variety of African American religious expressions. In this work, based on the Edward ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Handbook of Humanism

    by Anthony B. Pinn ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a more recent development. As a system of thought that values human needs and experiences over supernatural concerns, humanism has gained greater attention amid the rapidly shifting demographics of religious communities, especially in Europe and North ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause

    by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian, Vivian Pinn ...
    FROM THE EDITORS OF THE CLASSIC "BIBLE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH," A TRUSTWORTHY, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO HELP EVERY WOMAN NAVIGATE THE MENOPAUSE TRANSITIONFor decades, millions of women have relied on Our Bodies, Ourselves to provide the most comprehensive, honest, and accurate information on women's health. Now, in Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause, the editors of the classic guide discuss the transition of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Black Practice of Disbelief

    An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of Black Nonbelievers

    by Anthony Pinn ...
    A short introduction to Black Humanism: its history, its present, and the rich cultural sensibilities that infuse itIn the United States, to be a Black American is to be a Black Christian. And there’s something to this assumption in that the vast majority of African Americans are Christian. However, in recent years a growing number of African Americans have said they claim no particular religious ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • What Is African American Religion?

    Edited by Anthony B. Pinn ...
    Is there really a monolithic "Black church"? Distilling the arguments of Anthony B. Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief volume 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 ... Read more

    $13.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meaningful Aging from a Humanist Perspective

    by Peter Derkx, Anthony B. Pinn ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Aging is a topic of growing interest. As life expectancy in western societies is increasing, the growing number and proportion of ‘elderly’ persons raise urgent questions on how to age ‘well’. Predominantly, questions on aging are taken from biomedical and economic paradigms, which are intertwined. While people of age are seen as a cost in society, biomedical research aims at curing the declining ... Read more

    $49.49 USD