Code: 04939013

Creating Ourselves

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2009
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"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 get into the habit of engaging 'the other' in substantive conversation. Toward that end, they have brought together in this collection 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, who each also provide short responses 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 include 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; and Sheila F. Winborne.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

145.74 €

Full title: Creating Ourselves
Subtitle: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 400
EAN: 9780822345497
ISBN: 0822345498
ID: 04939013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Weight: 776 g
Dimensions: 235 × 156 × 30 mm
Date of publishing: 02. December 2009