Creating Ourselves

Creating Ourselves

African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression

  • Autor: Pinn, Anthony B.; Valentin, Benjamin; Rivera, Mayra; West, Traci C.
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822345497
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822391210
  • Lugar de publicación:  Durham , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2009
  • Mes: Diciembre
  • Páginas: 444
  • DDC: 201/.6305868073
  • Idioma: Ingles
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 León, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Angel F. Méndez Montoya, Alexander Nava, Anthony B. Pinn, Mayra Rivera, Suzanne E. Hoeferkamp Segovia, Benjamín Valentín, Jonathan L. Walton, Traci C. West, Nancy Lynne Westfield, Sheila F. Winborne

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. THINKING ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE
    • Cultural Production and New Terrain: Theology, Popular Culture, and the Cartography of Religion, Anthony B. Pinn
    • Benjamín Valentín’s Response
    • Tracings: Sketching the Cultural Geographies of Latino/a Theology, Benjamín Valentín
    • Anthony B. Pinn’s Response
  • PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING BODIES AND REPRESENTATION
    • Memory of the Flesh: Theological Reflections on Word and Flesh, Mayra Rivera
    • Traci C. West’s Response
    • Using Women: Racist Representations and Cross-Racial Ethics, Traci C. West
    • Mayra Rivera’s Response
  • PART THREE. LITERATURE AND RELIGION
    • This Day in Paradise: The Search for Human Fulfillment in Toni Morrison’s Paradise, James H. Evans Jr.
    • Teresa Delgado’s Response
    • Freedom Is Our Own: Toward a Puerto Rican Emancipation Theology, Teresa Delgado
    • James H. Evans Jr.’s Response
  • PART FOUR. MUSIC AND RELIGION
    • The Browning of Theological Thought in the Hip-Hop Generation, Alex Nava
    • Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan’s Response
    • The Theo-poetic Theological Ethics of Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
    • Alex Nava’s Response
  • PART FIVE. TELEVISION AND RELIGION
    • TV “Profits”: The Electronic Church Phenomenon and Its Impact on Intellectual Activity within African American Religious Practices, Jonathan Walton
    • Joseph De León’s Response
    • Telenovelas and Transcendence: Social Dramas as Theological Theater, Joseph De León
    • Jonathan Walton’s Response
  • PART SIX. VISUAL ARTS AND RELIGION
    • Theology as Imaginative Construction: An Analysis of the Work of Three Latina Artists, Suzanne E. Hoeferkamp Segovia
    • Sheila F. Winborne’s Response
    • The Theological Significance of Normative Preferences in Visual Art Creation and Interpretation, Sheila F. Winborne
    • Suzanne E. Hoeferkamp Segovia’s Response
  • PART SEVEN. FOOD AND RELIGION
    • She Put Her Foot in the Pot: Table Fellowship as a Practiceof Political Activism, Lynne Westfield
    • Angel F. Méndez Montoya’s Response
    • The Making of Mexican Mole and Alimentary Theology in the Making, Angel F. Méndez Montoya
    • Lynne Westfield’s Response
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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