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Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit and Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit
Call for Proposals
Tillichian Cartographies and Hip-Hop Aesthetics
The Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture and the Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit seeks paper proposals for a cosponsored panel on the contemporary cultural and artistic scene's disclosure of intersections between Paul Tillich and religious sensibilities expressed within Hip-hop. The music of Kendrick Lamar would be a case in point. We invite papers exploring new cartographies in Tillichian thought that center a scholarly use of Hip-hop as a cultural resource for thinking and rethinking through Tillichian theological and methodological approaches in the study of religion. We are especially interested in papers that address the following issues: Hip-hop, culture, and correlation; theology of culture and embodiment; theology and aesthetics; complex subjectivity, estrangement, and the “New Being”; Christian existentialism and the Black radical tradition; racial narcissism and Black existentialism.
Sponsors
Chairs
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Kirk MacGregor, McPherson College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Justin Smith, Azusa Pacific University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Michele Watkins, University of San Diego1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Daniel White Hodge, North Park University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
Steering Committee Members
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Rachel Sophia Baard, Union Presbyterian Seminary1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Christopher Driscoll, Lehigh University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Monica Miller, Lehigh University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Andre Price, Villanova University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Elliot Ratzman, Lawrence University1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
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Bryan Wagoner, Davis & Elkins College1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028