A Queering of Black Theology: James Baldwin's Blues Project and Gospel Prose

by E. Kornegay

Overview

Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137379061
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/11/2013
Series:	Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

EL Kornegay, Jr., is Adjunct Professor of Education at Chicago Theological Seminary, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Prolonged Religious Crisis 2. Between James's Gospel and Jimmy's Blues 3. Living Exiled in the Promised Land 4. Queer Theory and Theological Signification 5. Conversion: Queer Theory and Black Theology 6. Desire: Queer Theory in the Black Church 7. Conclusion: James Baldwin, Queer Theory, and Theological Reflection

Editorial Reviews

"EL Kornegay, Jr's A Queering of Black Theology performs for the reader as it plays an enchanting and griping song out of the primary writings from James Baldwin. No author has delved into Baldwin's raw cords of prophecy and pain to harmonize a hope out of race, sex, and religion. Every now and then a writer offers us a new song to sing, a new tune to hum. Kornegay has coopted Baldwin into his band of pioneering blues-jazz-soul knowledge."

- Dwight N. Hopkins, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology

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