Fordham U. Theology Dept. Held Book Talk on ‘Queer Possibilities of Black Religion’
“I think that books like Hunt’s help us to understand what’s at stake at the boundaries of even what we think is the most progressive understanding of faith”
The left despises religion, unless their cultural and political objectives are imprinted upon it.
Campus Reform reports:
Fordham University theology department held book talk on ‘Queer Possibilities of Black Religion’
The theology department of Fordham University in New York recently arranged a discussion on the book: “Jimmy’s Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion.”
The theology department’s Racial Justice and Equity Concerns Committee held the event on Feb. 20 with the book’s author, Dr. Christopher Hunt, a religion professor at Colorado College who lists his “preferred pronouns” as “he/him” or “they/them,” The Fordham Ram reported.
The book in question focuses on James Baldwin, a gay black writer and activist. Hunt “demonstrates the ways in which James Baldwin disidentifies with and queers Black Christian language and theology throughout his literary corpus.”
Hunt’s book description states that “Baldwin’s vision is one in which queer sexuality signifies the depth of love’s transforming possibilities, the arts serve as the (religious) medium of knitting Black community together, an agnostic and affective mysticism undermines Christian theological discourse, ‘androgyny’ troubles the gender binary, and the Black child signifies the hope for a world made new.”
Hunt was interviewed by Dr. Rufus Burnett of Fordham University, The Fordham Ram reported.
Hunt spoke of how Baldwin, who rejected the teachings of Christianity, “reworked” the symbols of the religion “in this fascinating and beautiful way,” The Ram wrote.
“I think that books like Hunt’s help us to understand what’s at stake at the boundaries of even what we think is the most progressive understanding of faith,” Burnett stated after the event, as the Ram reported.
Hunt’s work revolves strongly around themes of intersectionality, and focuses, among other subjects, on “contemporary theology (particularly Black, womanist, and queer theologies)” and “queer studies to bear in exploring the relationship of religion to varying socio-political phenomena, particularly race, gender, and sexuality.”
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
Gobbledygook.
They just string a bunch of meaningless words together and pretend like they said something profound.
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Fordham University theology department held book talk on ‘Queer Possibilities of Black Religion’”
Fordham University theology department may have been better served by reading Dale Carnegie first.
To any degree in which Fordham is still associated with the Church, all is explained by: Jesuit school.