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A Queering of Black TheologyQueering and Theological Signification

A Queering of Black Theology: Queering and Theological Signification [In chapter 1, I established that Baldwin’s understanding of religion is synonymous with safety. I further explained that Baldwin’s concern for safety presents a prolonged religious crisis is brought about by the awareness of his sexuality, the dangers sexuality presented him with, and the fact that religion would not make him safe in the church or on the street. I wrote about how the underlying element of puritanism that demonizes blackness as the source making religion unsafe. Toward the end of the chapter, I wrote about how Baldwin overcomes the puritanical metaphors of black oppression through sexualizing black religious discourse. In chapter 2, I explained 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—as a strategy for reclaiming black moral authority—the power to define the (blues) self on its own terms (righteousness). I further explained that Baldwin’s use of the blues is a form of signification used to create a black religious vernacular of sexualized discourse that reconciles racialized and sexualized bodies with black Christian faith.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Queering of Black TheologyQueering and Theological Signification

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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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79 –96
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10.1057/9781137376473_5
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Abstract

[In chapter 1, I established that Baldwin’s understanding of religion is synonymous with safety. I further explained that Baldwin’s concern for safety presents a prolonged religious crisis is brought about by the awareness of his sexuality, the dangers sexuality presented him with, and the fact that religion would not make him safe in the church or on the street. I wrote about how the underlying element of puritanism that demonizes blackness as the source making religion unsafe. Toward the end of the chapter, I wrote about how Baldwin overcomes the puritanical metaphors of black oppression through sexualizing black religious discourse. In chapter 2, I explained 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—as a strategy for reclaiming black moral authority—the power to define the (blues) self on its own terms (righteousness). I further explained that Baldwin’s use of the blues is a form of signification used to create a black religious vernacular of sexualized discourse that reconciles racialized and sexualized bodies with black Christian faith.]

Published: Oct 30, 2015

Keywords: Black Manhood; Black Masculinity; Negro Male; Black Church; Moral Choice

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