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Networking the Black Church


Networking the Black Church

Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop
Religion and Social Transformation, Band 13

von: Erika D. Gault

37,99 €

Verlag: NYU Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 18.01.2022
ISBN/EAN: 9781479805860
Sprache: englisch

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<p><b>Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church</b><br><br>They stand at the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement, push the boundaries of the Black Church through online expression of Christian hip hop, and redefine what it means to be young, Black, and Christian in America. Young Black adults represent the future of African American religiosity, yet little is known regarding their religious lives beyond the Black Church. <br><br><i>Networking the Black Church</i> explores how deeply embedded digital technology is in the lives of young Black Christians, offering a first-of-its-kind digital-hip hop ethnography. Erika D. Gault argues that a new religious ethos has emerged among young adult Blacks in America. To understand Black Christianity today it is not enough to look at the traditional Black Church. The Black Church is itself being changed by what she calls digital Black Christians. <br><br>The volume examines the ways in which Christian hip hop artists who have adopted Black-preaching-inspired spoken word performances create alternate kinds of Christian communities both inside and outside the walls of traditional Black churches. Framed around interviews with prominent Black Christian hip hop artists, it explores the multiple ways that digital Black Christians construct religious identity and meaning through video-sharing and social media. In the process, these digital Black Christians are changing Black churches as institutions, transforming modes of religious activism, inventing new communication practices around evangelism and Christian identity, and streamlining the accessibility of Black Church cultural practices in popular culture. Erika D. Gault provides a fascinating portrait of young Black faith, illuminating how the relationship between religion and digital media is changing the lived experiences of a new generation of Black Christians.</p>
<b>Erika D. Gault </b>is Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona and co-editor of
<i>Beyond Christian Hip Hop: Towards Christians and Hip Hop. </i>She is a scholar, poet, and ordained elder whose justice-centered work blends research, art, and religion to advocate for the rights of young Black people.

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