Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic

Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

by Anthony B. Pinn (Editor), Dwight N. Hopkins (Editor)

In this collection, contributors argue that the Black Church must begin to address the significance of sexuality if it is to actually present liberation as a mode of existence that fully appreciates the body. According to the contributors, the Black Church has been extremely silent about issues surrounding the sexual dimension of the body, the appreciation of the body, and the erotic. The contributors argue that we not only have to look at the Black Church in this discussion, but also explore black Christianity in general.

Genres: Theology, Religion

375 pages, Hardcover

First published December 10, 2004

Reviews

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far, I've read Anthony Pinn's intro and two of the essays (Katie Cannon's "Sexing Black Women" and Traci West's "A Space for Faith"). I totally dig Cannon's boldness and got some new reads from her footnotes. Also, I was real happy to see that Traci West found it important to reference an old, outta print novel by Ann Allen Shockley (_Say Jesus and Come to Me_), one that features a black lesbian minister -- maybe the only one of its kind. It is worth looking at this text (even if just for a skim). Especially if you're a religion mixed with other disciplines junkie like me :o)... I'll let you know a tad more when I finish up (if you want).