The Horrifying Sacred: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Figure of the Monster

In this article, I examine the intersection of two trajectories of thought and practice regarding the relationship between the sacred and the monstrous. One trajectory includes authors like George Bataille who, contrary to those who define the sacred in terms of purity and order, associate the sacre...

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Main Author: Winters, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2017]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-299
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bataille, Georges 1897-1962 / Monster / Holiness / Blacks / Hip-hop
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
NBE Anthropology
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
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