James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture

James Baldwin’s relationship with Black Christianity, and especially his rejection of it, exposes the anatomy of a religious heritage that has not been wrestled with sufficiently in Black theological and religious studies. In James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture, Clarence Hardy demonstrates that Baldwin is important not only for the ways he is connected to Black religious culture, but also for the ways he chooses to disconnect himself from it. Despite Baldwin...