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Black men worshipping : intersecting anxieties of race, gender, and Christian embodiment / Stacy C. Boyd.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Black religion/womanist thought/social justicePublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: xi, 177 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780230113718 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 277.3/08208996073 22
LOC classification:
  • BR563.N4 B69 2011
Other classification:
  • REL012060 | REL105000 | REL067000
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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, placing fictive literary and film narratives in conversation with the non-fictive narratives of controversial and popular religious personalities such as Donnie McClurkin and T.D. Jakes"--
Item type: Book
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction BR563.N4 B69 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 045777
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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, placing fictive literary and film narratives in conversation with the non-fictive narratives of controversial and popular religious personalities such as Donnie McClurkin and T.D. Jakes"--

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