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

Hardy, Clarence E., 1970-

1. ed

Knoxville, Tenn. : Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2003

XVI, 147 S ; 24 cm

Englisch

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index

eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

1-57233-230-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCoLC: 237808110     

OCoLC: 51900510 (aus SWB)     

LC 29610  | HU 3093  | LB 46610      Ähnliche Literatur

PS3552.A45

818.5409 ; 818/.5409 ; B

Basisklassifikation: 18.06 (Angloamerikanische Literatur) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*Schwarze ; Baldwin, James [1924-1987] ; Geschichte ; Kultur      Zum Register

* Baldwin, James [1924-1987] ; Religion      Zum Register

* Baldwin, James [1924-1987] ; USA ; Religion <Motiv> ; Kirche <Motiv> ; Schwarze      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Baldwin, James -- Religion ; Christianity and literature -- History -- 20th century -- United States ; Race -- Religious aspects -- Holiness churches ; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Holiness churches ; Holiness churches -- United States ; African Americans -- Religion ; Religion in literature