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Networking the Black Church - Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop (Paperback)
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Networking the Black Church - Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop (Paperback)
Series: Religion and Social Transformation
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Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how
digital technology is transforming the Black Church 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. Networking the Black
Church 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. 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.
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