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A Queering of Black TheologyLiving Exiled in the Promised Land

A Queering of Black Theology: Living Exiled in the Promised Land [Chapter 1 dealt with Baldwin’s prolonged religious crisis. I framed the crisis as the inheritance of a religious tradition that is shaped by puritanical influences, which demonize black bodies. I showed how Baldwin’s understanding religion exposes the influences of puritanism in black religion and how what he offers creates a sexualized discourse that defends against the psychological trap of metaphorical blackness: the psychological collision between the images created by Protestant Puritan ideology and black bodies. In chapter 2, I wrote about how the sexualized discourse emerging from Baldwin’s interpretation and experience of religion is a form of blues. I wrote about how puritanism forces Baldwin to signify—an act of verbal indirection that exploits the gaps between the denotative (indication) and figurative (semiotic) expression of a word that creates a strategy for reclaiming black moral authority: the power to define the (blues) self on its own terms (righteousness expressed via black religious vernacular) for blues bodies in the black church. I showed how blues bodies are a site of revelation wherein Jesus’s acceptance of incarnality and sexualized bodies reveals God to be found among those who are not only marginalized racially but sexually as well.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Queering of Black TheologyLiving Exiled in the Promised Land

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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
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978-1-349-47855-2
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57 –78
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10.1057/9781137376473_4
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Abstract

[Chapter 1 dealt with Baldwin’s prolonged religious crisis. I framed the crisis as the inheritance of a religious tradition that is shaped by puritanical influences, which demonize black bodies. I showed how Baldwin’s understanding religion exposes the influences of puritanism in black religion and how what he offers creates a sexualized discourse that defends against the psychological trap of metaphorical blackness: the psychological collision between the images created by Protestant Puritan ideology and black bodies. In chapter 2, I wrote about how the sexualized discourse emerging from Baldwin’s interpretation and experience of religion is a form of blues. I wrote about how puritanism forces Baldwin to signify—an act of verbal indirection that exploits the gaps between the denotative (indication) and figurative (semiotic) expression of a word that creates a strategy for reclaiming black moral authority: the power to define the (blues) self on its own terms (righteousness expressed via black religious vernacular) for blues bodies in the black church. I showed how blues bodies are a site of revelation wherein Jesus’s acceptance of incarnality and sexualized bodies reveals God to be found among those who are not only marginalized racially but sexually as well.]

Published: Oct 30, 2015

Keywords: Black Woman; Black Manhood; Black Male; Black Body; Black People

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