9 Gay Is the New Black, Theologically Speaking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I A Call to Conversation
6. 1. Religion, Race, and Sexuality in American Culture: A Public Conversation 15
7. PART II Sacred Texts, Social Authority, Sexual Difference
8. 2. Jephthah’s Daughter and #SayHerName 39
9. 3. An Inconsistent Truth: The New Testament, Early Christianity, and Sexuality 50
10. PART III Historical and Cultural Formations of Black (Christian) Sexual Politics
11. 4. “Have the Sons of Africa No Souls?” Manliness, Freedom, and Power in the Cultural Roots of Afro-Phallic Protestantism 65
12. 5. Everybody Knew He Was “That Way”: Chicago’s Clarence H. Cobbs, American Religion, and Sexuality During the Post–World War II Period 78
13. 6. Interrogating the Passionate and the Pious: Televangelism and Black Women’s Sexuality 104
14. PART IV Identity and Inclusion in Black Churches
15. 7. The Self-Interested Politics of Collective Religious Transformation: Issues of Family Definition and LGBT Inclusion in Black Churches 117
16. 8. Intersectional Invisibility and the Experience of Ontological Exclusion: The Case of Black Gay Christians 128
17. PART V Theological and Pastoral Visions of Inclusive Black Churches
18. 9 Gay Is the New Black, Theologically Speaking 145
19. 10. Flesh That Needs to be Loved: Wounded Black Bodies and Preachin’ in the Spirit 159
20. 11. Aiding and Abetting New Life: “Sex-Talk” in the Pulpit, Pew, and Public Square 173
21. 12. An Experiment in Inclusion: A Conversation with Christine and Dennis Wiley 190
22. Epilogue 209
23. Notes 217
24. Contributors 243
25. Index 249