The Horrifying Sacred: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Figure of the Monster
In this article, I examine the intersection of two trajectories of thought and practice regarding the relationship between the sacred and the monstrous. One trajectory includes authors like George Bataille who, contrary to those who define the sacred in terms of purity and order, associate the sacre...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2017]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-299 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bataille, Georges 1897-1962
/ Monster
/ Holiness
/ Blacks
/ Hip-hop
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion NBE Anthropology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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