{"product_id":"noise-and-spirit-the-religious-and-spiritual-sensibilities-of-rap-music-9780814766996","title":"Noise and Spirit: The Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities of Rap Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eRap music is often seen as a Black secular response to pressing issues of our time. Yet, like spirituals, the blues, and gospel music, rap has deep connections to African American religious traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoise and Spirit\u003c\/b\u003e explores the diverse religious dimensions of rap stemming from Islam (including the Nation of Islam and Five Percent Nation), Rastafarianism, and Humanism, as well as Christianity. The volume examines rap's dialogue with religious traditions, from the ways in which Islamic rap music is used as a method of religious and political instruction to the uses of both the blues and Black women's rap for considering the distinction between God and the Devil.\u003cbr\u003eThe first section explores rap's association with more easily recognizable religious traditions and communities such as Christianity and Islam. The next presents discussions of rap and important spiritual considerations, including on the topic of death. The final unit wrestles with ways to theologize about the relationship between the sacred and the profane in rap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePinn, Anthony B.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAnthony B. Pinn\u003c\/b\u003e is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University, where he also serves as the executive director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion. His books include Varieties of African-American Religious Experience, Why Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology, and By These Hands: A Documentary History of African-American Humanism (NYU Press, 2001).","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328802525458,"sku":"9780814766996","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1041fb39-c613-44ac-a35c-6180a2af06ef.jpg?v=1727752335","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/noise-and-spirit-the-religious-and-spiritual-sensibilities-of-rap-music-9780814766996","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}