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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Main Author: Connor, Kimberly Rae 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2006]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-28
Further subjects:B United States
B Teenage boys
B Religious Life
B Teenagers
B Religiousness
B hip-hop culture
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1743-1697
Contains:Enthalten in: Implicit religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/imre.2006.9.1.7