Beschreibung:
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.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. For All the Single Ladies: Black Women's Stories of Faith and Sexuality 1 1. Sexual Purity as PR: Tracing the Impact of Religious Media 21 2. Reading "Our" Bynum as Text: For a Black Woman by a Black Woman 29 3. Beyond Bynum: Analyzing Contemporary Faith-Based Sexuality Ministries 50 4. "Why I Gotta be Gay?": Approaches to Womanist Sexual Hospitality 81 5. "The Lord Still has Work for Me to Do": Analyzing Senior Sexuality and Faith-Based Sexuality Ministries 96 6. Horny and Holy: Saved Women Seeking Sexual Pleasure 116 Conclusion. Living Sexually Before God: A Contemporary Womanist Sexual Ethics 142 Notes 153 Bibliography 173 Index 183