Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THINKING ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE -- Cultural Production and New Terrain: Theology, Popular Culture, and the Cartography of Religion -- Response -- Tracings: Sketching the Cultural Geographies of Latino/a Theology -- Response -- PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING BODIES AND REPRESENTATION -- Memory of the Flesh: Theological Reflections on Word and Flesh -- Response -- Using Women: Racist Representations and Cross-Racial Ethics -- Response -- PART THREE. LITERATURE AND RELIGION -- This Day in Paradise: The Search for Human Fulfillment in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Response -- Freedom Is Our Own: Toward a Puerto Rican Emancipation Theology -- Response -- PART FOUR. MUSIC AND RELIGION -- The Browning of Theological Thought in the Hip-Hop Generation -- Response -- The Theo-poetic Theological Ethics of Lauryn Hill and Tupac Shakur -- Response -- PART FIVE. TELEVISION AND RELIGION -- TV "Profits": The Electronic Church Phenomenon and Its Impact on Intellectual Activity within African American Religious Practices -- Response -- Telenovelas and Transcendence: Social Dramas as Theological Theater -- Response -- PART SIX. VISUAL ARTS AND RELIGION -- Response -- The Theological Significance of Normative Preferences in Visual Art Creation and Interpretation -- Response -- PART SEVEN. FOOD AND RELIGION -- She Put Her Foot in the Pot: Table Fellowship as a Practice of Political Activism -- Response -- The Making of Mexican Mole and Alimentary Theology in the Making -- Response -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index