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Anthony Pinn
Board Member
Pinn is the author/editor of numerous books, including The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2002); Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion(2003), African American Humanist Principles (2004), Noise and Spirit: Rap Music’s Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities (2004), By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (2001), Introducing African American Religion (2012), The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology (2012), and the novel, The New Disciples (2015). Pinn is active with numerous professional organizations, including service as a member of the American Academy of Religion’s Board of Directors; Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion; and co-founder of the Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion. In addition, he is Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies. Pinn is also involved with many community organizations, and has held leadership positions in a variety of them, including Meadville Lombard Theological School Board of Trustees (Executive Committee and Chair of the Education Team); Unitarian Universalist Panel on Theological Education; Board of Directors for the American Humanist Association; and the Rothko Chapel Board of Advisors.