• • Front Matter
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• • Table of Contents
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• • Acknowledgments
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• • Introduction: Making a World with a Beat: Musical Expression’s Relationship to Religious Identity and Experience
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• • African American Christian Rap:: Facing “Truth” and Resisting It
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• • A Jihad of Words:: The Evolution of African American Islam and Contemporary Hip-Hop
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• • Rap, Reggae, and Religion:: Sounds of Cultural Dissonance
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• • “Handlin’ My Business”:: Exploring Rap’s Humanist Sensibilities
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• • Bringing Noise, Conjuring Spirit:: Rap as Spiritual Practice
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• • Rap as Wrap and Rapture:: North American Popular Culture and the Denial of Death
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• • The Spirit Is Willing and So Is the Flesh:: The Queen in Hip-Hop Culture
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• • The Rub:: Markets, Morals, and the “Theologizing” of Popular Music
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• • Rap, Religion, and New Realities:: The Emergence of a Religious Discourse in Rap Music
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• • Selected Bibliography
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• • About the Contributors
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• • Index
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