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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Hip-hop

pp. 597-606

Abstract

This essay concerns how hip-hop has both killed and retained the concept of God in a perpetual rising and sublation through its primary cultural forms: graffiti, breakdancing, DJing, and MCing. It reveals hip-hop as a "Silent Partner" in the enactment of postmodern death of God theology, illuminates how the death of God is the premise of hip-hop itself, and observes how the death of God illustrates hip-hop culture's oscillation between the "not true" and the "not a lie" of secular and confessional God language.

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Rodkey Christopher D., Miller Jordan E. (2018) The Palgrave handbook of radical theology. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 597-606

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6_39

Full citation:

(2018) „Hip-hop“, In: C. D. Rodkey & J. E. Miller (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of radical theology, Dordrecht, Springer, 597–606.