Street Scriptures

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Between God and Hip-Hop

By Alejandro Nava

Summary

Street Scriptures explores the profound and often overlooked spiritual dimensions of hip-hop culture. Alejandro Nava combines his deep appreciation for hip-hop with his theological expertise to reveal the sacred entanglements within rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop. The book examines artists like Nas, Kendrick Lamar, and Lauryn Hill alongside religious thinkers such as St. Augustine, offering a fresh lens on hip-hop as a form of 'street theology.' Nava’s analysis weaves together ethics, mysticism, politics, and aesthetics, portraying hip-hop as a modern liberation theology.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in the intersection of religion, music, and social justice, including scholars and students of theology, cultural studies, and those passionate about hip-hop’s deeper meanings.

Description

This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life.

The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but rarely is that element given serious consideration. In Street Scriptures, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this aspect of the music and culture in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge. Street Scriptures offers a refreshingly earnest and beautifully written journey through hip-hop’s deep entanglement with the sacred.

Nava analyses the religious heartbeat in hip-hop, looking at crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. Ranging from Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, and Cardi B to St. Augustine and William James, Nava examines the ethical-political, mystical-prophetic, and theological qualities in hip-hop, probing the pure sonic and aesthetic signatures of music, while also diving deep into the voices that invoke the spirit of protest. The result is nothing short of a new liberation theology for our time, what Nava calls a “street theology.”

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Critics praise Nava's erudition and interdisciplinary approach, noting his intervention into 20th-century theological movements and his balance between social justice and beauty. America Magazine highlights the compelling intellectual range, while US Catholic Magazine and Reading Religion commend the book’s insight into religion’s role in hip-hop and its cultural impact. The work is seen as both playful and serious with relevance for theology and cultural studies.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226819167

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 May 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 5 halftones

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

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Alejandro Nava Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Alejandro Nava is professor of religious studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Mystical and Prophetic Thought of Simone Weil and Gustavo Gutierrez, Wonder and Exile in the New World, and In Search of Soul. He has discussed hip-hop and religion on NPR, Fox News, HuffPost Live, and MSNBC, among other outlets.