Skip to content
  • Home
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Login
View cart
  • Login
Close
  • Home
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
Home Jimmy's Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion - Paperback
Jimmy's Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion
  • American,
  • Books,
  • Cultural & Ethnic Studies,
  • LGBTQ+,
  • Literary Criticism,
  • Religion,
  • Social Science,
  • Theology,

Jimmy's Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion - Paperback

Original price $56.80 - Original price $56.80
Original price
$56.80
$56.80 - $56.80
Current price $56.80
| /
Availability: In Stock
SKU 9781531508814
  • Description
  • Reviews ()

Additional information

Report copyright infringement

by Christopher Hunt (Author)

QSpirit Top 24 LGBTQ Christian Books of 2024

A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential

The relationship of James Baldwin's life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols?

Despite Baldwin's disavowal of Christianity in his youth, he continued to engage the symbols and theology of Christianity in works such as The Amen Corner, Just Above My Head, and others. With Jimmy's Faith, author Christopher W. Hunt shows how Baldwin's usage of those religious symbols both shifted their meaning and served as a way for him to build his own religious and spiritual vision. Engaging José Esteban Muñoz's theory of disidentification as a queer practice of imagination and survival, Hunt demonstrates the ways in which James Baldwin disidentifies with and queers Black Christian language and theology throughout his literary corpus.

Baldwin's vision is one in which queer sexuality signifies the depth of love's transforming pos-sibilities, 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. In disidentifying with Christian symbols, Jimmy's Faith reveals how Baldwin imagines both religion and the world "oth-erwise," offering a model of how we might do the same for our own communities and ourselves.

Author Biography

Christopher W. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Religion at Colorado College.

Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: December 03, 2024

You may also like

  • !Búscalo! (Look It Up!): A Quick Reference Guide to Spanish Grammar and Usage

    !Búscalo! (Look It Up!): A Quick Reference Guide to Spanish Grammar and Usage - Hardcover

    In stock

    Report copyright infringementby William M. Clarkson (Author)A novel approach--very useful for quick reference.--Mark Goldin Associate Professor of ...

    View full details
    Original price $39.52 - Original price $39.52
    Original price
    $39.52
    $39.52 - $39.52
    Current price $39.52
    | /
    Original price $39.52 - Original price $39.52
    Original price
    $39.52
    $39.52 - $39.52
    Current price $39.52
    | /
  • !Búscalo! (Look It Up!): A Quick Reference Guide to Spanish Grammar and Usage

    !Búscalo! (Look It Up!): A Quick Reference Guide to Spanish Grammar and Usage - Paperback

    In stock

    Report copyright infringementby William M. Clarkson (Author)"A novel approach-very useful for quick reference." --Mark Goldin, Associate Professor...

    View full details
    Original price $24.92 - Original price $24.92
    Original price
    $24.92
    $24.92 - $24.92
    Current price $24.92
    | /
    Original price $24.92 - Original price $24.92
    Original price
    $24.92
    $24.92 - $24.92
    Current price $24.92
    | /
  • "...and the Mille Lacs who have no reservation...": A history of the Chippewa Indians in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota up to 1934

    "...and the Mille Lacs who have no reservation...": A history of the Chippewa Indians in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota up to 1934 - Paperback

    In stock

    Report copyright infringementby Clarence Ralph Fitz (Author)The book chronologically explains the bungling of the federal government as they attemp...

    View full details
    Original price $44.44 - Original price $44.44
    Original price
    $44.44
    $44.44 - $44.44
    Current price $44.44
    | /
    Original price $44.44 - Original price $44.44
    Original price
    $44.44
    $44.44 - $44.44
    Current price $44.44
    | /
  • "8emessourit" 'The River of the Big Canoes': A Large, National, River Ecosystem in Peril

    "8emessourit" 'The River of the Big Canoes': A Large, National, River Ecosystem in Peril - Hardcover

    In stock

    Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Walter Hesse (Lars) (Author)The River of the Big Canoes is a powerful and sobering exploration of the ecol...

    View full details
    Original price $47.41 - Original price $47.41
    Original price
    $47.41
    $47.41 - $47.41
    Current price $47.41
    | /
    Original price $47.41 - Original price $47.41
    Original price
    $47.41
    $47.41 - $47.41
    Current price $47.41
    | /
  • "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide

    "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide - Paperback

    In stock

    Report copyright infringementby Samantha Power (Author)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!An impassioned critique of America's repeated failure to stop g...

    View full details
    Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99
    Original price
    $32.99
    $32.99 - $32.99
    Current price $32.99
    | /
    Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99
    Original price
    $32.99
    $32.99 - $32.99
    Current price $32.99
    | /
Shop collection
Infinity Light

#TurnPagesLightJourneys


Dedicated to enriching lives through accessible, high-quality books that inspire growth and imagination.

Main menu

  • Home
  • Shop
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Our Policies

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Shipping Policy
  • Return & Refund Policy
  • FAQ`s

Follow us

Find us on Facebook Find us on Threads Find us on Telegram Find us on Instagram Find us on LinkedIn Find us on Twitter
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Shipping Policy
  • Return & Refund Policy
  • FAQ`s

Copyright © 2026 INFINITY LIGHT, LLC. All rights reserved.

  • Amazon
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Diners Club
  • Discover
  • Google Pay
  • Mastercard
  • Shop Pay
  • Visa
  • Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
  • Opens in a new window.