James Baldwin's God : sex, hope, and crisis in Black holiness culture / Clarence E. Hardy III.

Contents 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 judment on (white) America -- Epilogue : a bastard people : blackness, eile, and the possibilities of redemption -- Afterword : stubborn hope for a new Jerusalem.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index.
LCCN 2003006422
ISBN1572332301 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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