The Hip Hop and Religion Reader

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, The Hip Hop and Religion Reader frames the lively and expanding conversation on hip hop's influence on the academic study of religion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415741017
• ISBN13: 9780415741019
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.6"