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Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption in Religion and Society

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  • Publisher: Orbis Books
  • 15.3 x 23.5 x 1.3 cm

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America’s white gaze toward the Black female body locates Black women in a crooked society that misrecognizes and misjudges their moral character. Moreover, the Black Church perpetuates a crooked gospel that reinforces society’s mischaracterization theologically. Up Against a Crooked Gospel takes up the narrative of the bent woman in the Gospel of Luke 13:10-17 as ripe for womanist theo-ethical inquiry because it parallels with the historical and contemporary narratives of the Black female body bent multiple by pervasive threats seeking to stifle survival in a multi-traumatic world. Through the perspective of the author’s grandmother’s story and critical analysis of Black women’s salvation politics, Up Against a Crooked Gospel articulates how Black women, in mutual partnership with God, possess “matter” mediated by their bodies necessary to confront a crooked moral fabric within Black religion and the broader American society.
Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption in Religion and Society and Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics
Old Testament Story and Christian EthicsUp Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption in Religion and Society
  • Author

    Melanie Jones Quarles

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Orbis Books

  • Published

    November 2024

  • Weight

    545g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.5 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781626985865

  • ISBN-10

    1626985863

  • Eden Code

    6748661

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