Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jamall A. CallowaySeries:Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / FuturePublish date:11/25/2025Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231209229ISBN-10:231209223UPC:9780231209229Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Theology, AmericanBook Topic:Literature & the Arts, Liberation, African American & BlackSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC8JEST9DY
Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise
A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and the aftermath of the Fall in works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker. In reflecting on Eden, he contends, these writers rethought what paradise...
Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231209229ISBN-10:231209223UPC:9780231209229Book Category:Religion, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Christianity, Christian Theology, AmericanBook Topic:Literature & the Arts, Liberation, African American & BlackSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.0714Product ID:SC8JEST9DY
Jamall A. Calloway is an assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University and an honorary research lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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