Religion and Hip Hop

ISBN-13: 9780415628570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 220 str.

Monica Miller

Opis

This title brings together the category of religion, hip hop cultural modalities and the demographic of youth. Bringing postmodern theory and critical approaches in the study of religion to bear on hip hop cultural practices, the book examines how scholars in religious and theological studies have deployed and approached religion when analyzing hip hop data.

Spis treści

Introduction: (Re)Finding Religion  1. Scapegoats, Boundaries, and Blame: The Civic Face of Hip-Hop Culture  2. Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover  3. And the Word Became Flesh: Hip-Hop Culture and the (In)coherence of Religion  4. Inside-Out: Complex Subjectivity and Postmodern Thought  5. Youth Religiosity in America: The Empirical Landscape  6. Faith in the Flesh  Conclusion: When the Religious Ain’t So Religious, After All  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Monica R. Miller is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanistic Approaches to the Social Sciences at Lewis & Clark College, Department of Religious Studies. She is co-chair of a new American Academy of Religion (AAR) group entitled 'Critical Approaches to the Study of Hip Hop and Religion' and Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS), Washington, DC.