Urban God Talk (eBook)

Andre E. Johnson is the Dr. James L. Netters Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Religion and African American Studies at Memphis Theological Seminary.

IntroductionPart I. Theoretical and Methodological ApproachesChapter 1: Somewhere Underneath the MC’s Wit and the Evangelical Word: Toward a Christian Ethical Evaluation of Hip Hop PolemicJames W. PerkinsonChapter 2: The Message from the WildernessMichael D. RoysterChapter 3: “To Set at Liberty Them that are Bruised”: Exposing Liberation Theology within Hip HopWeldon Merrial McWilliams, IVChapter 4: “Put Your Hands Together”: The Theological Meaning of Call-Response and Collective Participation in Rap MusicAngela M. NelsonChapter 5: “Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so”: Viewing Rap Music as a Form of African American SpiritualityDarrell WesleyChapter 6: From the same Womb, of the same Struggle: Hip Hop Music and its Connection with the Blues and the GospelsVaNatta S. FordChapter 7: Performing Spirituality: Lil Wayne’s Letters from a New York JailSharon LauricallaPart II. Hip Hop and ReligionChapter 8: Rap with Soul and Pray with Flow: Youth on Hip Hop Musicality and Catholic SpiritualityTim Huffman and Amira De la GarzaChapter 9: Embracing the Nation: Hip Hop, Louis Farrakhan, and Alternative MusicDawn-Marie GibsonChapter 10: Oath Continuities: The Inner Structure, Meaning, and Spiritualism of Mau Mau Hip HopMickie Mwanzia KosterChapter 11: My Soul Knows how to Flow: A Critical Analysis of the History of Urban Black Christian-Themed RapErika D. GaultChapter 12: Morality, the Sacred, and God in Ghanaian Hip HopHarry Nii Koney OdamttenChapter 13: In the Church, in the Streets: A Spectrum of Religious Expression in Christian Hip Hop and Spoken Word Poetry in Atlanta and DetroitShanesha R. F. Brooks Tatum