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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- James Baldwin
- the civil rights movement
- Martin Luther King
- Jr.
- Malcolm X
- The Devil Finds Work
- sexuality
- Go tell It on the Mountain
- Notes of a Native Son
- Black Panthers
- the Black Church
- Another Country
- If Beal Street Could Talk
- homosexuality
- Theology
- Medgar Evers
- Blues for Mister Charlie
- The Welcome Table
- The Amen Corner
- Just Above My Head
- religion and gender
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Reviews
“James Baldwin’s Understanding of God: Overwhelming Desire and Joy, by Josiah Ulysses Young, III, is an important contribution to a growing body of religious and theological scholarship concerned with the life and literary legacy of James Baldwin. James Baldwin’s Understanding of God is a 14-chapter book. Each chapter covers moments in a life that lasted 63 years. … This reviewer highly recommends it.” (Ronald B. Neal, Black Theology, Vol. 14, April, 2016)
"Young leads readers through a labyrinth of Baldwin's most intimate yet public reflections on the America he knew through a life marked by the tensions between alienation and desire, foreclosure, and yearning. Like the subject of this volume, Young is incisive, somber, candid and loving as he extends Baldwin's vision that 'artists . . . must tell the truth . . . make a confession, andthus surface those dilemmas and secrets that have to do with who we truly are as human beings.' Moreover, he analyzes the virtues underlying such an expensive and fragile vision, associating Baldwin's aesthetic sensibilities with a rare yet desperately needed insight into the sacred." - Dianne M. Stewart, Associate Professor, Religion and African American Studies, Emory University, USA
"Offering a rich and insightful study of America's most notable prophetic thinker, James Baldwin's Understanding of God breaks disciplinary boundaries by placing the works of James Arthur Baldwin within the theological contours of Africana religious studies. Young dares to explore the spatial dimensions of what Charles Long calls the 'extrachurch' and argues that it is within the joys and sorrows of black life, the lyricism of the blues, the extemporaneity of jazz, and the sensuality and love of humanity that we find James Baldwin's theology." - Tracey Elaine Hucks, James D. Vail III Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, Davidson College, USA
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: James Baldwin’s Understanding of God
Book Subtitle: Overwhelming Desire and Joy
Authors: Josiah Ulysses Young
Series Title: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454348
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45433-1Published: 19 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49791-1Published: 19 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45434-8Published: 17 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2945-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 222
Topics: Religion and Gender, Religion and Society, History of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies