The Sexual Politics of Black Churches / / ed. by Josef Sorett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Victor,; Best, Wallace,; Braxton, Brad R.,; Brown, Michael Joseph,; Camp, Nick,; Coleman, Monica A.,; Eibach, Richard,; Jones, Serene,; Junior, Nyasha,; Moultrie, Monique,; Powery, Luke A.,; Price, Melynda J.,; Purdie Greenaway, Valerie,; Savage, Barbara,; Sorett, Josef,; Walton, Jonathan Lee,
• HerausgeberIn: Sorett, Josef,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book brings together an interdisciplinary roster of scholars and practitioners to analyze the politics of sexuality within Black churches and the communities they serve. 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 in American society. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality across historical and contemporary settings.Individually and collectively, the pieces included in this book shed light on the relationship between the cultural politics of Black churches and the broader cultural and political terrain of the United States. Contributors examine how churches and their members participate in the formal processes of electoral politics as well as how they engage in other processes of social and cultural change. They highlight how contemporary debates around marriage, gender, and sexuality are deeply informed by religious beliefs and practices.Through a critically engaged interdisciplinary investigation, The Sexual Politics of Black Churches develops an array of new perspectives on religion, race, and sexuality in American culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I A Call to Conversation -- 1. Religion, Race, and Sexuality in American Culture: A Public Conversation -- PART II Sacred Texts, 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 Inclusive Black Churches -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index