Anthony B. Pinn is a professor of humanities and religious studies at Rice University in Houston. He has been critical of the prosperity gospel preached in some black megachurches for its lack of emphasis on community service and charity. He is the author of Why, Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology and editor of Redemptive Suffering: a History of Theodicy in African-American Religious Thought. He also studies African-American religious humanism and is the author of African American Humanist Principles: Living and Thinking Like the Children of Nimrod and By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism.
| Website | https://reli.rice.edu/people/faculty/anthony-pinn |
| Email address | pinn@rice.edu |
| Phone number | 713-348-2710 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Clergy, Congregations, Faith leaders, Money & giving, Race & ethnicity, Society & culture |
| Locations | Texas, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Atheism/Agnosticism, Christianity |
| Languages | English |