Creating ourselves : African Americans and Hispanic Americans on popular culture and religious expression

著者

書誌事項

Creating ourselves : African Americans and Hispanic Americans on popular culture and religious expression

Anthony B. Pinn and Benjamín Valentín, editors

Duke University Press, 2009

  • : pbk

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全2件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-403) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities. In the introduction, the editors contend that given overlapping histories and interests of the two communities, they should work together to challenge social injustices. Acknowledging that dialogue is a necessary precursor to collaboration, they maintain that African and Latino/a Americans need to cultivate the habit of engaging "the other" in substantive conversation. Toward that end, they have brought together theologians and scholars of religion from both communities. The contributors offer broadly comparative exchanges about the religious and theological significance of various forms of African American and Latino/a popular culture, including representations of the body, literature, music, television, visual arts, and cooking. Corresponding to a particular form of popular culture, each section features two essays, one by an African American scholar and one by a Latino/a scholar, as well as a short response by each scholar to the other's essay. The essays and responses are lively, varied, and often personal. One contributor puts forth a "brown" theology of hip hop that celebrates hybridity, contradiction, and cultural miscegenation. Another analyzes the content of the message transmitted by African American evangelical preachers who have become popular sensations through television broadcasts, video distribution, and Internet promotions. The other essays include a theological reading of the Latina body, a consideration of the "authenticity" of representations of Jesus as white, a theological account of the popularity of telenovelas, and a reading of African American ideas of paradise in one of Toni Morrison's novels. Creating Ourselves helps to make popular culture available as a resource for theology and religious studies and for facilitating meaningful discussions across racial and ethnic boundaries.Contributors. Teresa Delgado, James H. Evans Jr., Joseph De Leon, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Angel F. Mendez Montoya, Alexander Nava, Anthony B. Pinn, Mayra Rivera, Suzanne E. Hoeferkamp Segovia, Benjamin Valentin, Jonathan L. Walton, Traci C. West, Nancy Lynne Westfield, Sheila F. Winborne

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One. Thinking About Religion and Culture Cultural Production and New Terrain: Theology, Popular Culture, and the Cartography of Religion / Anthony B. Pinn 13 Benjamin Valentin's Response 34 Tracings: Sketching the Cultural Geographies of Latino and Latina Theology / Benjamin Valentin 38 Anthony B. Pinn's Response 62 Part Two. Constructing Bodies and Representation Memory of Flesh: Theological Reflections on Word and Flesh / Mayra Rivera 69 Traci C. West's Response 90 Using Women: Racist Representation and Cross-Racial Ethics / Traci C. West 95 Mayra Rivera's Response 114 Part Three. Literature and Religion This Day in Paradise: The Search for Human Fulfillment in Toni Morrison's Paradise / James H. Evans Jr. 119 Teresa Delgado's Response 133 Freedom is Our Own: Toward a Puerto Rican Emancipation Theology / Teresa Delgado 138 James H. Evans Jr.'s Response 173 Part Four. Music and Religion The Browning of Theological Thought in Hip-Hop Generation / Alexa Nava 181 Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan's Response 199 The Theo-poetic Theological Ethics of Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan 204 Alex Nava's Response 224 Part Five. Television and Religion TV "Profits": An Examination of the Electronic Church Phenomenon and Its Impact on Intellectual Activity within African American Religious Practices / Jonathan Walton 231 Joseph De Leon's Response 249 Telenovelas and Transcendence: Social Dramas as Theological Theater / Joseph De Leon 253 Jonathan Walton's Response 271 Part Six. Visual Arts and Religion Theology as Imaginative Construction: An Analysis of The Work of Three Latina Artists / Suzanne E. Hoeferkamp Segovia 277 Sheila F. Winborne's Response 302 The Theological Significance of Normative Preferences in Visual Art Creation and Interpretation / Sheila F. Winborne 306 Suzanne E. Hoerferkamp Segovia's Sresponse 331 Part Seven. Food and Religion She Put Her Foot in the Pot: Table Fellowship as a Practice of Political Activism / Lynne Westfield 339 Angel F. Mendez Montoya's Response 356 The Making of Mexican Mole and Alimentary Theology in the Making / Angel F. Mendez Montoya 360 Lynne Westfield's Response 384 Bibliography 387 Contributors 405 Index 409

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ