Passionate and pious : religious media and black women's sexuality / Monique Moultrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moultrie, Monique Nicole, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sex.

African American women--Sexual behavior--Religious aspects.

African American women.

African American women clergy--Sexual behavior--Religious aspects.

African American women clergy.

Mass media in religion.

Sexual ethics for women.

African American women--Sexual behavior.

Physical Description:

xi, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Passionate and Pious Monique Moultrie explores the impact of faith-based sexual ministries on black women's sexual agency to trace how these women navigate sexuality, religious authority, and their spiritual walk with God. Providing churchwomen a space to candidly discuss these issues, these popular ministries exist largely beyond the traditional church, with dialogues about sex taking place in chat rooms and through text messages, social media, email, and other media. Moultrie foregrounds televangelist Juanita Bynum's construction of the black Christian sexual identity these ministries promote while emphasizing how churchwomen reconcile these prescriptive identities with their individual experiences. What does it mean for senior women to exercise sexual agency when their church standing could be questioned? What does celibacy mean for women who experience same-sex desire while believing that such desire goes against God's will? Advancing a womanist sexual ethics, Moultrie reframes biblical interpretations and conceptions of what constitutes a healthy relationship to provide a basis for sexual decision making that does not privilege monogamy or deny female pleasure, thereby calling on black churchwomen to experience responsible and life-enhancing sex. Book jacket.

Contents:

For all the single ladies: black women's stories of faith and sexuality

Sexual purity as PR: tracing the impact of religious media

Reading "our" Bynum as text: for a black woman by a black woman

Beyond Bynum: analyzing contemporary faith-based sexuality ministries

Why I gotta be gay? Approaches to womanist sexual hospitality

The Lord still has work for me to do?: analyzing senior sexuality and faith-based sexuality ministries

Horny and holy: saved women seeking sexual pleasure

Living sexually before God: a contemporary womanist sexual ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Moultrie, Monique Nicole, 1978- Passionate and pious.

ISBN:

9780822369998

0822369990

9780822370048

0822370042

OCLC:

968482952