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By Monica R. Miller

Religion and Hip Hop brings jointly the class of faith, Hip Hop cultural modalities and the demographic of teenybopper. Bringing postmodern thought and important methods within the learn of faith to undergo on Hip Hop cultural practices, this booklet examines how students in spiritual and theological experiences have deployed and approached faith whilst interpreting Hip Hop information. utilizing current empirical experiences on formative years and faith to the cultural feedback of the arts, Religion and Hip Hop argues that universal between latest scholarship is a skinny interrogation of the class of faith. As such, Miller demands a redescription of faith in renowned cultural research - a problem she extra explores and advances via quite a few materialist engagements.


Going past the conventional and extra universal method of interpreting rap lyrics, from movie, dance, to digital fact, Religion and Hip Hop takes a clean method of exploring the paranoid posture of the spiritual in renowned cultural kinds, by means of going past what "is" non secular approximately Hip Hop tradition. particularly, Miller explores what rhetorical makes use of of faith in Hip Hop tradition accomplish for varied and sometimes competing social and cultural interests.

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