Black men worshipping
Subtitle: intersecting anxieties of race, gender, and Christian embodiment
By: Stacy C. Boyd
Series: Black religion/womanist thought/social justice
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780230113718
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Religion in literature; Religion in motion pictures; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General; Religion; RELIGION / Christian Life / Men's Issues; RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies; African American men; African Americans in motion pictures
Description: "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"--

"Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where black Christian masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from black male negotiations with constructions of blackness, maleness, and Christian embodiment. Black Men Worshipping places fictive literary narratives such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and In My Father's House, and film narratives such as The Green Mile in dialogue with the non-fictive narratives of popular African American figures Bishop T. D. Jakes and Pastor Donnie McClurkin in an effort to provide a snapshot of the complex constellation of issues involved in black male Christian embodiment"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.