Hip Hop and Religion Reader

<p>Edited by two recognized scholars of African-American religion and culture this reader the first of its kind provides the essential texts for an important and emerging field of study – religion and hip hop. Until now the discipline of religious studies lacked a consistent and coherent text that highlights the developing work at the intersections of hip hop religion and theology. Moving beyond an institutional understanding of religion and offering a multidimensional assortment of essays this new volume charts new ground by bringing together voices who to this point have been a disparate and scattered few. Comprehensively organized with the foundational and most influential works that continue to provide a base for current scholarship <i>The Hip Hop and Religion Reader </i>frames the lively and expanding conversation on hip hop’s influence on the academic study of religion.</p>