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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824878803321

Autore

Boyd S

Titolo

Black Men Worshipping [[electronic resource] ] : Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment / / by S. Boyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-38092-7

9786613380920

0-230-33941-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

Classificazione

REL012060REL105000REL067000

Disciplina

277.308208996073

Soggetti

Christianity

Gender identity—Religious aspects

Theology

Religion and sociology

Sociology

Religion and Gender

Christian Theology

Sociology of Religion

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Messianic Masculinity: Killing Black Male Bodies in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Green Mile * Christian Race Man: Bishop T.D. Jakes and the Search for Contemporary Christian Masculinity * Donnie McClurkin and the Tensions of Black Christian Sexuality * Father Stories and Hungry Sons in Ernest J. Gaines's In My Father's House.

Sommario/riassunto

Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where Black masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from Black male negotiations with these constructions.