Loving The Body Book

	Introduction	1
1	Sexing black women : liberation from the prisonhouse of anatomical authority	11
2	A space for faith, sexual desire, and ethical black ministerial practices	31
3	Constructing a doctrine for the Ecclesia Militans	53
4	The Bible, the body and a black sexual discourse of resistance	73
5	Vashti	91
6	The spirit is willing and the flesh is too : living whole and holy lives through integrating spirituality and sexuality	111
7	When and where I enter, then the whole race enters with me : que(e)rying Exodus	121
8	Toward a true black liberation theology : affirming homoeroticism, black gay Christians, and their love relationship	133
9	Embracing Nimrod's legacy : the erotic, the irreverence of fantasy, and the redemption of black theology	157
10	The construction of the black male body : eroticism and religion	179
11	The erotic in contemporary black women's writings	199
12	Salome's veiled dance and David's full monty : a womanist reading on the black erotic in blues, rap, R&B, and gospel blues	217
13	Black spirituals, physical sensuality, and sexuality : notes on a neglected field of inquiry	235
14	Loving our black bodies as God's luminously dark temples : the quest for black restoration	249
15	Desiring booty and killing the body : toward "negative" erotics	271
16	The black church and the curious body of the black homosexual	297
17	Teaching the body : sexuality and the black church	315
18	The black church and the politics of sexuality	347