Introduction: What's This 'Religious' in Hip Hop Culture?

At the 2010 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion held in Atlanta, GA, a group of young scholars organized a wildcard session titled "What’s This ‘Religious’ in Hip Hop Culture?" The central questions under investigation by the panel were 1) what about hip hop culture is relig...

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Published in:Bulletin for the study of religion
Main Author: Driscoll, Christopher M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2011
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Further subjects:B Play
B AAR
B Theory
B Music
B Race
B Hip Hop
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Summary:At the 2010 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion held in Atlanta, GA, a group of young scholars organized a wildcard session titled "What’s This ‘Religious’ in Hip Hop Culture?" The central questions under investigation by the panel were 1) what about hip hop culture is religious? and 2) how are issues of theory and method within African American religious studies challenged and/or rethought because of the recent turn to hip hop as both subject of study and cultural hermeneutic. Though some panelists challenged this "religious" in hip hop, all agreed that hip hop is of theoretical and methodological import for African American religious studies and religious studies in general. This collection of essays brings together in print many findings from that session and points out the implications of hip hop's influence on religious scholars' theoretical and methodological concerns.
ISSN:2041-1871
Contains:Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v40i3.001