Loving the Body Black Religious Studies and the Erotic

African American identity is inundated with notions of sex, faith, and race. Yet the black church in America has failed to deal with one of the most visible sites of spirituality in African American religiosity. Why has the sensuality and eroticism of the black body, so eveident in black culture and African American life, remained a taboo topic? Loving the Body builds on this query by bringing together diverse approaches to sexuality and religion in order to address this provacative subject. Authors subsume Christian discourse within the broader conversation in both sacred and profane manifestations of the contentions over what it means to construct the eroticism of black materiality.Hopkins, Dwight N. is the author of 'Loving the Body Black Religious Studies and the Erotic', published 2004 under ISBN 9781403963253 and ISBN 1403963258.