Douglas, Kelly Brown.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Part of the series Black religion/womanist thought/social justice;Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
Notes:

• Introduction: Black body/Black church: a blues slant — Crazy blues — Somebody’s angel child — The Devil’s gonna get you — Hear me talkn’ to ya — Down at the crossroads — A crossroads God — Black and blues church — Blues coda: back to the crossroads.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• There is a problem in the black church. It is a problem with black bodies and a blues problem. This book addresses these problems head-on. It proclaims that as long as the black church cannot be a home for certain bodies, such as LGBT bodies, then it has forsaken its very black faith identity. The black church must find a way back to itself. Kelly Brown Douglas argues that the way back is through the blues. –Publisher’s website.

Subjects:

• African American churches.
• Black theology.
• African Americans — Religion.
• Blacks — Religion.
• Discrimination — Religious aspects — Christianity.
• Blues (Music) — Religious aspects.
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