Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part I From Civil Rights to Hip Hop 1
1 From Civil Rights to Hip Hop: A Meditation Alton B. Pollard III 3
2 Dissed-Enfranchised: The Black Church under the Steeple Joshua Hutchinson 15
3 Chasing a Dream Deferred: From Movement to Culture 21 Emmett G. Price III
Part II Hip Hop Culture and the Black Church in Dialogue 31
4 Deep Calls to Deep: Beginning Explorations of the Dialogue between the Black Church and Hip Hop Charles L. Howard 33
5 Rap Music as Prophetic Utterance Cynthia B. Belt 43
6 Binding the Straw Man: Hip Hop, African American Protestant Religion, and the Dilemma of Dialogue Lerone A. Martin 55
7 Sermon: "Kick Your Delilah to the Curb" Sherman A. Gordon 63
8 Thou Shall Have No Other Gods before Me: Myths, Idols, and Generational Healing Shaundra Cunningham 67
9 Hip Hop Children of a Lesser God Paul Scott 81
10 Sermon: "Bling Bling" Stephen C. Finley 85
11 Formality Meets Hip Hop: The Influence of Hip Hop Culture on the Afro-European Church Shana Mashego 95
Part III Gospel Rap, Holy Hip Hop, and the Hip Hop Matrix 105
12 Beats, Rhymes and Bibles: An Introduction to Gospel Hip Hop Josef Sorett 107
13 Isn't Loving God Enough? Debating Holy Hip Hop Cassandra Thornton 115
14 Five Theses on the Globalization of Thug Life and 21st Century Missions Kenneth D. Johnson 131
15 Hip Hop, Theology, and the Future of the Black Church Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou 153
16 Confessions of a Hip Hop Generation Minister Patricia Lesesne 159
17 Spiritually Educating and Empowering a Generation: Growing Up in a Hip Hop Matrix René Rochester 165
18 An Invisible Institution: A Functional Approach to Religion in Sports in Wounded African American Communities Onaje X. Offley Woodbine 173
19 "To Serve the Present Age": A Benediction Emmett G. Price III 189
Selected Bibliography 193
Index 197
About the Editor and Contributors 205