Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning

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Christopher M. Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Religion Africana and American Studies at Lehigh University. Driscoll is also cofounder and former chair of the Critical Approaches to Hip Hop and Religion group at the American Academy of Religion. Much of his work attends to hip hop culture including editing a 2011 special issue of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion on the topic he is coauthor of Breaking Bread Breaking Beats: Churches and Hip Hop A Guide to Key Issues (Fortress 2014) and more. Driscoll is also author of White Lies: Race & Uncertainty in the Twilight of American Religion (Routledge 2015) and coauthor (with Monica R. Miller) of Method as Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the Academic Study of Religion (Lexington 2018).Monica R. Miller is Associate Professor of Religion Africana Studies and Director of Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at Lehigh University USA. Miller is the author of Religion and Hip Hop (Routledge 2012) The Hip Hop and Religion Reader coedited with Anthony B. Pinn (Routledge 2014) Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the New Terrain in the US coedited with Anthony B. Pinn and Bernard Bun B Freeman (Bloomsbury 2015) Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion: Social and Rhetorical Techniques Examined ed. (Equinox 2016) and Humanism in a Non-Humanist World ed. (Palgrave Macmillan) among other books numerous essays and book chapters on the topic. Miller is cofounder and current cochair of the Critical Approaches to hip hop and Religion group at the American Academy of Religion and has presented nationally on the topic over the past ten years. Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is also the founding Director of Rice's Certer for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning. Pinn is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies (Washington DC). In addition to courses on African American religious thought liberation theologies and religious aesthetics Pinn co-teaches with Bernard Bun B Freeman a popular course on religion and hip hop culture. The course received media coverage from a variety of outlets including MTV. He is the author/editor of over 30 books including Noise and Spirit: Rap Musics Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities (NYU Press 2003); The Religion and Hip Hop Reader coedited with Monica R. Miller (Routledge 2014); and Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the New Terrain in the US coedited with Monica R. Miller and Bernard Bun B Freeman (Bloomsbury 2015).