A Queering of Black Theology

A Queering of Black Theology
Author: E. Kornegay
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1137376473

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.

A Queering of Black Theology

A Queering of Black Theology
Author: E. Kornegay
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1137376473

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.

Our Lives Matter

Our Lives Matter
Author: Pamela R. Lightsey
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498206646

Our Lives Matter uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessive police force against Black people to frame the book as following the discursive tradition of liberation theologies broadly speaking and womanist theology specifically. Using a womanist methodological approach, Pamela R. Lightsey helps readers explore the impact of oppression against Black LBTQ women while introducing them to the emergent intellectual movement known as queer theology. The author privileges their narratives and experiences as she reviews several doctrines and dogma of the Christian church. Theological reflection on contemporary debates such as same-sex marriage and ordination rights make this book a valuable resource to clergy, students of theology, LGBTQ persons and allies. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer

Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer
Author: Jarel Robinson-Brown
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334060486

If the church is ever tempted to think that it has its theology of grace sorted, it need only look at its reception of queer black bodies and it will see a very different story. In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay. A vital call to the Church and the world that Black, Queer, Christian lives matter, this book seeks to remind the Church of those who find themselves beyond its fellowship yet who directly suffer from the perpetual ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence.

Black Theology and Black Power

Black Theology and Black Power
Author: Cone, James, H.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2018
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608337723

"The introduction to this edition by Cornel West was originally published in Dwight N. Hopkins, ed., Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black Theology & Black Power (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999; reprinted 2007 by Baylor University Press)."

Queering Black Atlantic Religions

Queering Black Atlantic Religions
Author: Roberto Strongman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1478003456

In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. Showing how trance possession is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality as a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.

Radical Love

Radical Love
Author: Patrick S. Cheng
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1596271329

The first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology. Contextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives – including feminist theology, black theology, womanist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and Asian American theology – and a wide variety of academic and general introductions exist to examine each one. However, Radical Love is the first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology. In this lucid and compelling introduction, Cheng provides a historical survey of how queer theology has developed from the 1950s to today and then explicates the themes of queer theology using the ecumenical creeds as a general framework. Topics include revelation, God, Trinity, creation, Jesus Christ, atonement, sin, grace, Holy Spirit, church, sacraments, and last things, as seen through the lenses of LGBT theologians.

Queer Theology

Queer Theology
Author: Linn Marie Tonstad
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498218806

What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for a queer theology that builds on the interconnection of theology with sex and money. Thoroughly grounded in queer theory as well as in Christian theology, Queer Theology grapples with the fundamental challenges of the body, sex, and death, as these are where queerness and Christianity find (and, maybe, lose) each other.

Representations of Homosexuality

Representations of Homosexuality
Author: R. Sneed
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2010-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230106560

Roger A. Sneed offers an alternative approach to black homosexuality for black religious scholars who have traditionally viewed homosexuality as a problem. Instead, by drawing on a range of black gay writers, Representations of Homosexuality points black religious scholarship towards an ethics of openness.