Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel according to Tupac Amaru Shakur
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Overview
Tupac Amaru Shakur was considered a Hip Hop prophet. His spiritual journey has not had much attention given to it until now. This book looks at Tupac’s gospel message from a Hip Hop context. Tupac presents a theological message needed now even twenty-plus years after his death.
Theology is a ghost. For centuries, white theologians extolled the virtues of inclusion in Christ, while excluding black and brown folks from every dimension of Christian social life to the point of irrelevance. In Baptized in Dirty Water, hip-hop theologian Daniel White Hodge turns to the life (and death) of Tupac Shakur, presenting the artist through a theological register. In doing so, Hodge might just be resurrecting theology from its ghostly white reputation.
——Christopher Driscoll, author of White Lies
Product Details
- Title : Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel according to Tupac Amaru Shakur
- Author: White Hodge, Daniel
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781532613678
Daniel White Hodge is Associate Professor of Intercultural Communications and Department Chair of Communication Arts at North Park University in Chicago. His research interests are the intersections of faith, Hip Hop culture, race/ethnicity, and young adult emerging generations. His latest publications are Hip Hop’s Hostile Gospel: A Post Soul Theological Exploration (2017) and Homeland Insecurity: A Hip Hop Missiology for the Post-Civil Rights Context (2018). More can be found at www.whitehodge.com and www.whitehodgepodcasts.com.