African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod Book

Introduction: "Figures of the True"
• Part I: Nimrod as Hero
• Who Is the Man?...: Nimrod, Afrocentrism, and the African American Dream—Lee H. Butler, Jr.
• The Hunter and the Game: Reappropriating the Legend of Nimrod from an African American Theological Perspective—James H. Evans, Jr.
• Nimrod and the South African Context—Dorothy Farisani
• "Lest We Be Scattered Abroad:" Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black Religious Humanism in Harlem—Juan M. Floyd-Thomas
• "I am Black and Beautiful, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem:" African American Virtue Ethics and a Womanist Hermeneutics of Redemption—Stacey Floyd-Thomas
• God of Restraint: An African American Humanist Interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel—Anthony B. Pinn
• The Story of Nimrod: The Struggle with Otherness and the Search for Identity—Arthur L. Pressley
• More than a Mighty Hunter: George Washington Williams, Nineteenth-Century Racialized Discourse and the Reclamation of Nimrod—Abraham Smith
• Nimrod and Dead Prez: Walking Like a Warrior—Ralph C. Watkins
• Part II: Nimrod as Infamous
• "The Strength of Collective Man:" Nimrod and the Tower of Babel—Allen Dwight Callahan
• Nimrod: Paradigm of Future Oppressive Systems—Jimmy Kirby
• Beyond the Curse of Noah: African American Pastoral Theology as Political—Edward P. Wimberly
• Part III: A Neutral Stance
• A Tower of Pulpits—Dale P. Andrews
• Reorientation by Reference to "Wrong Way" Makers: Evaluating a Modern Signifying Mythicization of Ancient Mythicization—Theodore Walker, Jr.