Varieties of African American Religious Experience

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Varieties of African American Religious Experience
Varieties of African American Religious Experience
Author : Anthony B. Pinn
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Publisher : Fortress Press
Language : English
Release Date : 15 October 2017
ISBN : 9781506403366
Pages : 320 pages
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Varieties of African American Religious Experience by Anthony B. Pinn Book PDF Summary

Twenty years ago, Anthony Pinn‘s engrossing survey highlighted the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ever-changing black religious quest. Based on extensive research, travel, and interviews, Pinn‘s work provides a fascinating look especially at Voodoo, Santeria, the Nation of Islam, and black humanism in the United States and uses the diversity of religious belief to begin formulation of a comparative black theology-the first of its kind. This twentieth-anniversary edition is an expanded version, including a new preface and a new concluding chapter. An important contribution to classroom studies!

Varieties of African American Religious Experience

Varieties of African American Religious Experience by Anthony B. Pinn

Twenty years ago, Anthony Pinn‘s engrossing survey highlighted the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ever-changing black religious quest. Based on extensive research, travel, and interviews, Pinn‘s work provides a fascinating look especially at Voodoo, Santeria, the Nation of Islam, and black

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