Sanctified and Commercially Successful Curses: On Gangsta Rap and the Canonization of the Imprecatory Psalms

The imprecatory psalms cause problems for modern theological sensibilities, raising the question (among others) of why they were canonized in the first place. The present article compares a similar “canonization” of violent speech in the phenomenon of gangsta rap generally, and in the rapper/actor/p...

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Main Author: Strawn, Brent A. 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2013
In: Theology today
Year: 2013, Volume: 69, Issue: 4, Pages: 403-417
Further subjects:B gangsta rap
B Ice Cube
B Violence
B Hip-hop
B Imprecatory Psalms
B Canonization
B imprecation
B Cursing
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