A Queering of Black Theology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 1-12

3. The Prolonged Religious Crisis

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 13-38

4. Between James’s Gospel and Jimmy’s blues

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 39-56

5. Living Exiled in the Promised Land

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 57-78

6. Queering and Theological Signification

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 79-96

7. Conversion: Queer Theory and Black Theology

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 97-118

8. Desire: Queering in the Black Church

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 119-144

9. Conclusion: James Baldwin, Queer Theory, and Theological Reflection

   • EL Kornegay Jr.

   Pages 145-151

10. Back Matter

    Pages 153-199

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Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally.

• black church
• religion
• theology

"EL Kornegay, Jr's A Queering of Black Theology performs for the reader as it plays an enchanting and griping song out of the primary writings from James Baldwin. No author has delved into Baldwin's raw cords of prophecy and pain to harmonize a hope out of race, sex, and religion. Every now and then a writer offers us a new song to sing, a new tune to hum. Kornegay has coopted Baldwin into his band of pioneering blues-jazz-soul knowledge."

- Dwight N. Hopkins, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology

EL Kornegay, Jr., is Adjunct Professor of Education at Chicago Theological Seminary, USA

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