Religious Studies: Is Humanism a Religion of Social Justice?

Join us to learn from Dr. Anthony Pinn, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religion at Rice University, to discuss African American humanism.

Dr. Pinn's scholarship is incredibly vast and spans decades. We can't cover it all here, but here are a few intriguing tidbits from his website:

• "Pinn [...] made his initial mark on the academy with Why, Lord? Suffering and Evil in Black Theology (1995), galvanizing Pinn as an African American humanist and solidifying African American humanism as an historic, non-theistic religious orientation for African Americans."
• "More than simply traditional, organized theistic belief and practice, black religion is fundamentally a quest to answer and address the who, what, when, where and why of human existence in general, in terms set against the backdrop of the particular history of dehumanization and terror experienced by African Americans."
• "Pinn’s Embodiment and the New Shape of Black Theological Thought (2010) extends the discussion of embodiment that accompanies much of his work, offering guiding points for future black theological scholarship, as well as presenting a detailed depiction of the practical application of “the quest for complex subjectivity” as theory of black religion. Centrally, this text is a nascent exploration of what a “body-centered approach to theological thought” might look like, and an explication of why prioritizing “the body’s meaning and lived experiences” as the starting point for theology is vital for future scholarship

Read more about Dr. Pinn here: https://www.anthonypinn.com/biography

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