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_qalk. paper)
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100 1 _aHardy, Clarence E.,
_d1970-
_eauthor.
_927586
245 1 0 _aJames Baldwin's God :
_bsex, hope, and crisis in Black holiness culture /
_cClarence E. Hardy III.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aKnoxville :
_bUniversity of Tennessee Press,
_c2003.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 147 pages)
336 _aText
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aComputermedien
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aOnline Resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index.
505 0 _a"But the city was real" : religion as bloodless theater -- Conversion, the self, and ugliness : Black bodies before a White God -- "Just as Black" : a malevolent God and the permanence of Black suffering -- But the body was real : sex, love, and the character of revelatory experience -- A pulpit beyond the church : activism, fire, and the coming judgment on (White) America -- Epilogue : "a bastard people" : blackness, exile, and the possibilities of redemption -- Afterword : stubborn hopes for a new Jerusalem.
520 1 _a"James Baldwin's relationship with black Christianity, and especially his rejection of it, exposes the anatomy of a religious heritage that has not been wrestled with sufficiently in black theological and religious studies. In James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture, Clarence Hardy demonstrates that Baldwin is important not only for the ways he is connected to black religious culture, but also for the ways he chooses to disconnect himself from it. Despite Baldwin's view that black religious expression harbors a sensibility that is often vengeful and that its actual content is composed of illusory promises and empty theatrics, he remains captive to its energies, rhythms, languages, and themes. Baldwin is forced, on occasion, to acknowledge that the religious fervor he saw as an adolescent was not simply an expression of repressed sexual tension but also a sign of the irrepressible vigor and dignified humanity of black life." "In one of his later extended essays, James Baldwin remembered how his stepfather, David Baldwin, a one-time Baptist minister, died because of his "unreciprocated love for the Great God Almighty," James Baldwin's God engages most directly those aspects of Baldwin's work that address the substance and character of this unrequited love for a Christian God that is depicted as both silent before black suffering and as white - i.e., actively opposed to the flourishing of black life. Despite his consistent portrayal of a black holiness culture full of energy and passion, Baldwin implicitly condemns the fact that the principal backdrop to black people's conversion to Christianity in the United States is shame and not hope. Hardy's reading of Baldwin's texts, with its goal of understanding Baldwin's attitude toward a religion that revolves around an uncaring God in the face of black suffering, provides provocative reading for scholars of religion, literature, and history."--Jacket.
542 _nAll rights reserved.
600 1 0 _aBaldwin, James,
_d1924-1987
_xReligion.
_927587
650 0 _zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_9285
650 0 _xReligious aspects
_xHoliness churches.
_927588
650 0 _xReligious aspects
_xHoliness churches.
_927588
650 0 _zUnited States.
_920486
650 0 _xReligion.
650 0 _zUnited States.
_920486
655 4 _aElectronic books.
733 0 _tACLS Humanities E-Book.
_nURL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
830 0 _aACLS Humanities E-Book.
_927589
856 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40139
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942 _cEB
500 _aE-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal
653 _aChristianity and literature
653 _aRace
653 _aSex
653 _aHoliness churches
653 _aAfrican Americans
653 _aReligion in literature.
653 _aPentecostal churches
041 _aeng
500 _aAmerican Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
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