The Sexual Politics of Black Churches /

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

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 issu...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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