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A Queering of Black TheologyBetween James’s Gospel and Jimmy’s blues

A Queering of Black Theology: Between James’s Gospel and Jimmy’s blues [Chapter 1 begins by identifying Baldwin’s encounter with religion as prolonged crisis: the inheritance of a religious tradition that did not offer him the moral authority (power) and community where his faith, belief, sexual self, and manhood could find acceptance and safety. His religious tradition is shaped by puritanical influences that demonize black bodies and black sexuality. Toward the end of the chapter 1, I identified the emergence of an allegorical sexualized discourse that is a defense against the psychological trap of metaphorical blackness: the psychological collision” between the images created by Protestant Puritan ideology and black bodies. This discourse also offers a means for reinserting black bodies (back) into religion and Christianity.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Queering of Black TheologyBetween James’s Gospel and Jimmy’s blues

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
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978-1-349-47855-2
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39 –56
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10.1057/9781137376473_3
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[Chapter 1 begins by identifying Baldwin’s encounter with religion as prolonged crisis: the inheritance of a religious tradition that did not offer him the moral authority (power) and community where his faith, belief, sexual self, and manhood could find acceptance and safety. His religious tradition is shaped by puritanical influences that demonize black bodies and black sexuality. Toward the end of the chapter 1, I identified the emergence of an allegorical sexualized discourse that is a defense against the psychological trap of metaphorical blackness: the psychological collision” between the images created by Protestant Puritan ideology and black bodies. This discourse also offers a means for reinserting black bodies (back) into religion and Christianity.]

Published: Oct 30, 2015

Keywords: Black Community; Black Body; Black People; Moral Authority; Black Church

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