Anthony B. Pinn
Dr. Anthony Pinn Anthony B. Pinn received his BA from Columbia University and his MDiv and PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University. He is currently the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religion at Rice University. Pinn is the founding director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning, inaugural director of the Center for African and African American Studies, both at Rice, and director of research for the Institute for Humanist Studies—a Washington, DC-based think tank. He is the author/editor of over thirty-five books, including When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race (2017) and the novel The New Disciples (2015).
Posts by Anthony B. Pinn
The Black Practice of Disbelief
The following excerpt is from a new book from Beacon Press, set to be published in May 2024. Introduction I have grown to like... Read More
Is It Time to Talk About Reparations?
FROM TIME TO TIME, I’ll receive emails and calls from humanists and atheists thanking me for my work—and in those short exchanges I’m often... Read More
Humanism’s Vulnerable Human
WHILE A NOBEL PRIZE-winning intellectual favored by many academics, the North African Albert Camus also wrote of existential circumstances of war and want that... Read More
Humanism and the Challenge of Privilege
This article is an excerpt from chapter four of When Colorblindness Isn’t the Answer: Humanism and the Challenge of Race (Pitchstone Publishing, 2017). This... Read More
Dr. Anthony Pinn Speaks on Humanism, Diversity, and Unity at Reason Rally 2016
Below are remarks delivered by American Humanist Association board member and Rice University professor Dr. Anthony Pinn on the main stage at Reason Rally... Read More
Confronting Racism: Don’ts & Dos for Humanists
THERE ARE DEBATED ISSUES within the humanist movement revolving around the agenda that should guide humanist thinking and activism. Is it enough to address... Read More