Includes bibliographical references and index.

Somewhere underneath the MC's wit and the evangelical word: toward a Christian ethical evaluation of hip hop polemic / James W. Perkinson -- The message from the wilderness / Michael D. Royster -- "To set at liberty them that are bruised:" exposing liberation theology within hip hop / Weldon Merrial McWilliams IV -- "Put your hands together": the theological meaning of call-response and collective participation in rap music / Angela M. Nelson -- "Let the redeemed of the lord say so:" viewing rap music as a form of African-American spirituality / Darrell James Wesley -- From the same womb of the same struggle: hip hop music with the blues and the gospels / VaNatta S. Ford -- Performing spirituality: Lil Wayne's letters from a New York jail / Sharon Lauricella -- Rap with soul and pray with flow: youth on hip hop musicality and Catholic spirituality / Tim Huffman and Amira De la Garza -- Embracing the nation: hip-hop, Louis Farrakhan, and alternative music / Dawn-Marie Gibson -- Oath continuities: the inner structure, meaning, and spiritualism of "Mau Mau" hip hop / Mickie Mwanzia Koster -- My soul knows how to flow: a critical analysis of the history of urban Black Christian-themed rap / Erika D. Gault -- Morality, the sacred, and God in Ghanaian hip hop / Harry Nii Koney Odamtten -- In the church, in the streets: a spectrum of religious expression in Christian hip hop and spoken word poetry / Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum.

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