Imagining Eden Black Theology and the Search for 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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jamall A. Calloway
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 21.10.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
• EAN: 9780231209236
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20923-6
• Pages: 288
• Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Subjects: RELIGION / Christian Theology / Liberation, RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Literary Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art, Relating to African American / Black American people, religion; literary criticism