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Creating Ourselves
African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
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2009
About this book
Analyzes the religious and theological significance of African-American and Hispanic-American popular culture, structured in part as a dialogue between scholars from both ethnic groups.
Author / Editor information
Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. His many books include Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music, The Black Church in the Post-Civil Rights Era, and Varieties of African American Religious Experience.
Benjamin Valentin is Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of the Orlando E. Costas Lectureship in Latino(a) Theology at the Andover Newton Theological School. He is the author of Mapping Public Theology: Beyond Culture, Identity, and Difference and the editor of New Horizons in Hispanic/Latino(a) Theology. Pinn and Valentin are the editors of The Ties That Bind: African American and Hispanic American/Latino(a) Theologies in Dialogue.
Reviews
“The editors have assembled a very creative set of essays by African American and Hispanic theologians reflecting on popular culture and religious expression within their communities. The great strength of this collection is found in the dialogical set-up wherein an African theologian presents an essay, which a Hispanic theologian comments upon, and vice-versa throughout the volume.” - L. H. Mamiya, Choice
“[T]his is an excellent text and a vital resource for the classroom and research. It appeals not only to scholars of religion and popular culture and individuals interested in African-Americans and Latino/a communities, but also to anyone who would like to see a model of collaborative academic dialogue.” - Michelle A. Gonzalez, Theological Studies
“I found the structure of the work innovative and very much needed in scholarly circles. . . . Overall, I enjoyed reading Creating Ourselves as the subject of creativity in all different forms, styles, colours, and shadows is part of our daily life.” - Anna Hamling, Feminist Review Blog
“Pinn and Valentin's aim is to create a space for dialogue while, at the same time, opening up an avenue for critique and bridge building. The format is a good one…. [T]his volume will… lead to further discussion between the two traditions and should lead to more academic presentations, essays, panel discussions, and books." - Andre E. Johnson, Journal of African American History
“Creating Ourselves should be welcomed by all those concerned with inequalities in our society. It approaches popular culture from the perspective of social justice while employing theological and ethical perspectives; it provides an array of approaches to popular culture influenced by the different social locations of the contributors; and those contributors, from two communities of color, speak to, rather than past, each other.”—Miguel A. De La Torre, author of Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins
“In its comparative and dialogical approach, Creating Ourselves provides a model for the kind of scholarly work in which we might engage across the humanities. It also makes an important contribution to the popular culture studies, a field that is rarely in conversation with scholars of religion and theology.”—Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday
“[T]his is an excellent text and a vital resource for the classroom and research. It appeals not only to scholars of religion and popular culture and individuals interested in African-Americans and Latino/a communities, but also to anyone who would like to see a model of collaborative academic dialogue.”
-- Michelle A. Gonzalez Theological Studies
“I found the structure of the work innovative and very much needed in scholarly circles. . . . Overall, I enjoyed reading Creating Ourselves as the subject of creativity in all different forms, styles, colours, and shadows is part of our daily life.”
-- Anna Hamling Feminist Review Blog
“Pinn and Valentin's aim is to create a space for dialogue while, at the same time, opening up an avenue for critique and bridge building. The format is a good one…. [T]his volume will… lead to further discussion between the two traditions and should lead to more academic presentations, essays, panel discussions, and books."
-- Andre E. Johnson Journal of African American History
“The editors have assembled a very creative set of essays by African American and Hispanic theologians reflecting on popular culture and religious expression within their communities. The great strength of this collection is found in the dialogical set-up wherein an African theologian presents an essay, which a Hispanic theologian comments upon, and vice-versa throughout the volume.”
-- L. H. Mamiya Choice
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - PART ONE. THINKING ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE
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Cultural Production and New Terrain: Theology, Popular Culture, and the Cartography of Religion
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Tracings: Sketching the Cultural Geographies of Latino/a Theology
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62 - PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING BODIES AND REPRESENTATION
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Memory of the Flesh: Theological Reflections on Word and Flesh
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Using Women: Racist Representations and Cross-Racial Ethics
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114 - PART THREE. LITERATURE AND RELIGION
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This Day in Paradise: The Search for Human Fulfillment in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
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Freedom Is Our Own: Toward a Puerto Rican Emancipation Theology
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173 - PART FOUR. MUSIC AND RELIGION
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The Browning of Theological Thought in the Hip-Hop Generation
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The Theo-poetic Theological Ethics of Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur
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224 - PART FIVE. TELEVISION AND RELIGION
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TV “Profits”: The Electronic Church Phenomenon and Its Impact on Intellectual Activity within African American Religious Practices
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Telenovelas and Transcendence: Social Dramas as Theological Theater
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271 - PART SIX. VISUAL ARTS AND RELIGION
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The Theological Significance of Normative Preferences in Visual Art Creation and Interpretation
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331 - PART SEVEN. FOOD AND RELIGION
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She Put Her Foot in the Pot: Table Fellowship as a Practice of Political Activism
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The Making of Mexican Mole and Alimentary Theology in the Making
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Contributors
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Index
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