Black Men Worshipping [electronic resource] : Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment /
Boyd, S.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) 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.
Christianity.
Gender identity—Religious aspects.
Theology.
Religion and sociology.
Sociology.
Christianity.
Religion and Gender.
Christian Theology.
Sociology of Religion.
Gender Studies.