Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-212) and index

Interplay of Things

Drawing on literature along with the visual and performing arts, Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences understanding the ways in which things are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay

On the Question at the End of Theodicy

This article argues that theodicy provides an insufficient response to suffering - one that often further victimizes those who suffering most. In it’s place, I argue for a moralist response based on Albert Camus and W. E. B. Du Bois

Interplay of Things

Drawing on literature along with the visual and performing arts, Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences understanding the ways in which things are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay

Cultural Reflections on African American Religious Experience: A Forum of Emerging Thought

Lecture by Anthony Pinn at Lancaster Theological Seminary's first major conference on Black religion, held at the Seminary, Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17, 2010. 2 digital audio recordings (mp3); introduction is available as a separate sound file. Duration: 57 minutes

"Why Can't I Be Both?": Jean-Michel Basquiat and Aesthetics of Black Bodies Reconstituted

This essay explores the nature and significance of blackness in relationship to an aesthetics of meaning, a method that offers insights into how religion, or the quest for complex subjectivity, is articulated through the visual arts. The essay sketches particular examples of blackness in relationship to aesthetics in a way that involves loose movement through particular periods and locations, ultimately coming to rest on the work of one particular artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. I explore Basquiat's work in connection to the politics and production of the aesthetic language of identity formation, examining how artistic production articulates or chronicles particular attention to this quest for complex subjectivity. And I offer a sense of this theory of religionﾒs applicability within multiple contexts