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The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture
Toward Bridging the Generational Divide
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2011
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Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Black Church stood as the stronghold of the Black Community, fighting for equality and economic self-sufficiency and challenging its body to be self-determined and self-aware. Hip Hop Culture grew from disenfranchised urban youth who felt that they had no support system or resources. Impassioned with the same urgent desires for survival and hope that their parents and grandparents had carried, these youth forged their way from the bottom of America’s belly one rhyme at a time. For many young people, Hip Hop Culture is a supplement, or even an alternative, to the weekly dose of Sunday-morning faith.
In this collection of provocative essays, leading thinkers, preachers, and scholars from around the country confront both the Black Church and the Hip Hop Generation to realize their shared responsibilities to one another and the greater society. Arranged into three sections, this volume addresses key issues in the debate between two of the most significant institutions of Black Culture. The first part, “From Civil Rights to Hip Hop,” explores the transition from one generation to another through the transmission—or lack thereof—of legacy and heritage. Part II, “Hip Hop Culture and the Black Church in Dialogue,” explores the numerous ways in which the conversation is already occurring—from sermons to theoretical examinations and spiritual ponderings. Part III, “Gospel Rap, Holy Hip Hop, and the Hip Hop Matrix,” clarifies the perspectives and insights of practitioners, scholars, and activists who explore various expressions of faith and the diversity of locations where these expressions take place.
In The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture, pastors, ministers, theologians, educators, and laypersons wrestle with the duties of providing timely commentary, critical analysis, and in some cases practical strategies toward forgiveness, healing, restoration, and reconciliation. With inspiring reflections and empowering discourse, this collection demonstrates why and how the Black Church must re-engage in the lives of those who comprise the Hip Hop Generation.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8236-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8237-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
208
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Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 From Civil Rights to Hip Hop: A Meditation No access
2 Dissed-Enfranchised: The Black Church under the Steeple No access
3 Chasing a Dream Deferred: From Movement to Culture No access
4 Deep Calls to Deep: Beginning Explorations of the Dialogue between the Black Church and Hip Hop No access
5 Rap Music as Prophetic Utterance No access
6 Binding the Straw Man: Hip Hop, African American Protestant Religion, and the Dilemma of Dialogue No access
7 Sermon: “Kick Your Delilah to the Curb” No access
8 Thou Shall Have No Other Gods before Me: Myths, Idols, and Generational Healing No access
9 Hip Hop Children of a Lesser God No access
10 Sermon: “Bling Bling” No access
11 Formality Meets Hip Hop: The Influence of Hip Hop Culture on the Afro-European Church No access
12 Beats, Rhymes and Bibles: An Introduction to Gospel Hip Hop No access
13 Isn’t Loving God Enough? Debating Holy Hip Hop No access
14 Five Theses on the Globalization of Thug Life and 21st Century Missions No access
15 Hip Hop, Theology, and the Future of the Black Church No access
16 Confessions of a Hip Hop Generation Minister No access
17 Spiritually Educating and Empowering a Generation: Growing Up in a Hip Hop Matrix No access
18 An Invisible Institution: A Functional Approach to Religion in Sports in Wounded African American Communities No access
19 “To Serve the Present Age”: A Benediction No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 193 - 196
Index No access Pages 197 - 204
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 205 - 208
