UID:
almafu_9961448686402883
Format:
1 online resource (233 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9780231547772
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0231547773
Series Statement:
Religion, culture, and public life
Content:
In essays and conversations, leading writers reflect on how Black churches have participated in recent discussions about issues such as marriage equality, reproductive justice, and transgender visibility. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality.
Note:
Includes index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: A Call to Conversation -- 1. Religion, Race, and Sexuality in American Culture: A Public Conversation -- Part II: Sacred Text, Social Authority, Sexual Difference -- 2. Jephthah's Daughter and #SayHerName -- 3. An Inconsistent Truth: The New Testament, Early Christianity, and Sexuality -- Part III: Historical and Cultural Formations of Black (Christian) Sexual Politics -- 4. "Have the Sons of Africa No Souls?": Manliness, Freedom, and Power in the Cultural Roots of Afro-Phallic Protestantism -- 5. Everybody Knew He Was "That Way": Chicago's Clarence H. Cobbs, American Religion, and Sexuality During the Post-World War II Period -- 6. Interrogating the Passionate and the Pious: Televangelism and Black Women's Sexuality -- Part IV: Identity and Inclusion in Black Churches -- 7. The Self-Interested Politics of Collective Religious Transformation: Issues of Family Definition and LGBT Inclusion in Black Churches -- 8. Intersectional Invisibility and the Experience of Ontological Exclusion: The Case of Black Gay Christians -- Part V: Theological and Pastoral Visions of an Inclusive Black Church -- 9. Gay Is the New Black, Theologically Speaking -- 10. Flesh That Needs to be Loved: Wounded Black Bodies and Preachin' in the Spirit -- 11. Aiding and Abetting New Life: "Sex-Talk" in the Pulpit, Pew, and Public Square -- 12. An Experiment in Inclusion: A Conversation with Christine and Dennis Wiley -- Epilogue -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sorett, Josef The Sexual Politics of Black Churches New York : Columbia University Press,c2022
Language:
English
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