The Fifth Corner: Hip Hop's New Geometry of Adolescent Religiosity
This ethnography explores the ways in which hip hop culture functions as a secular form of religiosity for adolescent males in the United States. The data is based on the author's experience as an instructor at a private high school where she observed the behaviour here described. The Fifth Co...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Equinox
[2006]
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Implicit religion
Jahr: 2006, Band: 9, Heft: 1, Seiten: 7-28 |
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United States
B Teenage boys B Religious Life B Teenagers B Religiousness B hip-hop culture |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This ethnography explores the ways in which hip hop culture functions as a secular form of religiosity for adolescent males in the United States. The data is based on the author's experience as an instructor at a private high school where she observed the behaviour here described. The Fifth Corner'-a site created by eight teenage boys for enacting hip hop principles-displayed elements of religious life that historians of religion conventionally ascribe to religious behaviour. It was a designated sacred space carved out of a secular realm that provided what the secular environment did not: the opportunity for a community of believers to congregate, to compose scripture, and to generate symbolic and ritual activity that elicited a spiritual feeling which promoted an ethical posture and led to the development of a doctrine of faith. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.2006.9.1.7 |