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Loving the Body : Black Religious Studies and the Erotic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice SeriesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781403980342
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Loving the BodyDDC classification:
  • 270/.089/96
LOC classification:
  • BL60
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Loving the Body Black Religious Studies and the Erotic -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- I Ethics -- 1 Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prisonhouse of Anatomical Authority -- 2 A Space for Faith, Sexual Desire, and Ethical Black Ministerial Practices -- II Biblical Studies -- 3 Constructing a Doctrine for the Ecclesia Militans -- 4 The Bible, the Body and a Black Sexual Discourse of Resistance -- 5 Vashti -- III Pastoral Studies -- 6 The Spirit is Willing and the Flesh is Too: Living Whole and Holy Lives Through Integrating Spirituality and Sexuality -- 7 When and Where I Enter, Then the Whole Race Enters with Me: Que(e)rying Exodus -- 8 Toward aTrue Black Liberation Theology: Affirming Homoeroticism, Black Gay Christians, and Their Love Relationships -- IV Theology -- 9 Embracing Nimrod's Legacy: The Erotic, the Irreverence of Fantasy, and the Redemption of BlackTheology -- 10 The Construction of the Black Male Body:Eroticism and Religion -- 11 The Erotic in Contemporary Black Women's Writings -- V Musical Studies -- 12 Salome's Veiled Dance and David's Full Monty: AWomanist Reading on the Black Erotic in Blues, Rap, R&amp -- B, and Gospel Blues -- 13 Black Spirituals, Physical Sensuality, and Sexuality: Notes on a Neglected Field of Inquiry -- VI Hermeneutics and Cultural Criticism -- 14 Loving Our Black Bodies As God's Luminously DarkTemples:The Quest for Black Restoration -- 15 Desiring Booty and Killing the Body: Toward "Negative" Erotics -- 17 The Black Church and the Curious Body of the Black Homosexual -- VII Sociology of Religion -- 17 Teaching the Body: Sexuality and the Black Church -- 18 The Black Church and the Politics of Sexuality.
Summary: A collection of essays that explores the significance of sexuality and the erotic within the context of black religious studies as a discipline.
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Cover -- Loving the Body Black Religious Studies and the Erotic -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- I Ethics -- 1 Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prisonhouse of Anatomical Authority -- 2 A Space for Faith, Sexual Desire, and Ethical Black Ministerial Practices -- II Biblical Studies -- 3 Constructing a Doctrine for the Ecclesia Militans -- 4 The Bible, the Body and a Black Sexual Discourse of Resistance -- 5 Vashti -- III Pastoral Studies -- 6 The Spirit is Willing and the Flesh is Too: Living Whole and Holy Lives Through Integrating Spirituality and Sexuality -- 7 When and Where I Enter, Then the Whole Race Enters with Me: Que(e)rying Exodus -- 8 Toward aTrue Black Liberation Theology: Affirming Homoeroticism, Black Gay Christians, and Their Love Relationships -- IV Theology -- 9 Embracing Nimrod's Legacy: The Erotic, the Irreverence of Fantasy, and the Redemption of BlackTheology -- 10 The Construction of the Black Male Body:Eroticism and Religion -- 11 The Erotic in Contemporary Black Women's Writings -- V Musical Studies -- 12 Salome's Veiled Dance and David's Full Monty: AWomanist Reading on the Black Erotic in Blues, Rap, R&amp -- B, and Gospel Blues -- 13 Black Spirituals, Physical Sensuality, and Sexuality: Notes on a Neglected Field of Inquiry -- VI Hermeneutics and Cultural Criticism -- 14 Loving Our Black Bodies As God's Luminously DarkTemples:The Quest for Black Restoration -- 15 Desiring Booty and Killing the Body: Toward "Negative" Erotics -- 17 The Black Church and the Curious Body of the Black Homosexual -- VII Sociology of Religion -- 17 Teaching the Body: Sexuality and the Black Church -- 18 The Black Church and the Politics of Sexuality.

A collection of essays that explores the significance of sexuality and the erotic within the context of black religious studies as a discipline.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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