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Title: Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective by Kelly Brown Douglas ISBN: 1-57075-242-7 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must Read!!
Comment: I think I've recommended this great work to everyone I know.
This book should be a must read for all African American church members. It is challenging, provocative, and engaging. A work like this is the only way to begin the dialogue necessary to resurrect the dying Black Church.
Rating: 4
Summary: Has Valid Points, But Gets Off Track
Comment: Douglas tells the truth about American history when she reveals how black people were mistreated during slavery. This book shows that sexuality was used to oppress black people, the white culture exists only as the non-white culture is oppressed, day to day social struggles are a microcosm of the macrocosm (for example, "gangsta" rap is a response/result of dehumanizing social influences such as institutions and systems). But the book gets off track when Douglas condones homosexuality and mixes principles of Christianity with principles of secular humanism.
Rating: 5
Summary: Foucault and the History of Black Sexuality
Comment: Kelly Brown Douglass has written an excellent first chapter for her book Sexuality and th Black Church. What she has done here is to explain the relevance of using Michel Foucault as a tool to look at the history of black sexuality in the United States. Her basic argument is that black sexuality as we know it today is a fiction, a number of fictions (made of up numerous stereotypes), more or less derived, from what she calls White Culture. That Black sexuality has been a means to discipline and control black bodies. This book is commendable in that it dares to use Foucault and that it touches upon the personal in such aa way as to make all a bit uneasy --- black, white, male, female, heterosexual and homosexual. We all have a lot to learn from her analysis.
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Title: If It Wasn't for the Women...: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes ISBN: 1570753431 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Black Womanist Ethics (American Academy of Religion Academy Series ; No. 60) by Katie Geneva Cannon ISBN: 155540216X Publisher: Amer Academy of Religion Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk by Delores S. Williams ISBN: 1570750262 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya ISBN: 0822310732 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Introducing Womanist Theology by Stephanie Y. Mitchem ISBN: 1570754217 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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