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020 _a9780230113718 (hardback)
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100 1 _aBoyd, Stacy C.,
_d1973-
245 1 0 _aBlack men worshipping :
_bintersecting anxieties of race, gender, and Christian embodiment /
_cStacy C. Boyd.
260 _aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2011.
300 _axi, 177 p. ;
_c22 cm.
490 0 _aBlack religion/womanist thought/social justice
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aAfrican American men
_xReligion.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 _aReligion in literature.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in motion pictures.
650 0 _aReligion in motion pictures.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Christian Life / Men's Issues
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650 7 _aRELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies
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650 7 _aRELIGION / Christian Theology / General
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