Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought / Anthony B. Pinn.
2010
PS3616.I576 .P56 2016
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Title
Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought / Anthony B. Pinn.
Author
Pinn, Anthony B., author.
ISBN
9780814768518
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814767740.001.0001 doi
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PS3616.I576 .P56 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
230.08996073
Summary
Black theology tends to be a theology about no-body. Though one might assume that black and womanist theology have already given significant attention to the nature and meaning of black bodies as a theological issue, this inquiry has primarily taken the form of a focus on issues relating to liberation, treating the body in abstract terms rather than focusing on the experiencing of a material, fleshy reality. By focusing on the body as a physical entity and not just a metaphorical one, Pinn offers a new approach to theological thinking about race, gender, and sexuality.According to Pinn, the body is of profound theological importance. In this first text on black theology to take embodiment as its starting point and its goal, Pinn interrogates the traditional source materials for black theology, such as spirituals and slave narratives, seeking to link them to materials such as photography that highlight the theological importance of the body. Employing a multidisciplinary approach spanning from the sociology of the body and philosophy to anthropology and art history, Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought pushes black theology to the next level.
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Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ; ; 7
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Body Construction
1. Theological Posturing
2. Blackness and the Identifying of Bodies
3. What to Make of Gendered Bodies?
4. Sex(uality) and the (Un)Doing of Bodies
Part 2. Bodies in Motion
5. Bodies as the Site of Religious Struggle
6. On the Redemption of Bodies
7. Bodies in the World
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Body Construction
1. Theological Posturing
2. Blackness and the Identifying of Bodies
3. What to Make of Gendered Bodies?
4. Sex(uality) and the (Un)Doing of Bodies
Part 2. Bodies in Motion
5. Bodies as the Site of Religious Struggle
6. On the Redemption of Bodies
7. Bodies in the World
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author