How does hip hop relate to religion, what does it tell us about the human desire for meaning? What do the visual arts tell us about our quest for place, human connection, and for a sense of meaning that includes but also transcends the mundane? This open access book brings together secular and religious scholars, artists, and activists, to explore topics such as race, gender, class, AI and racial injustice. Based on the assumption that dialogue produces a much richer understanding of human activity than monologues, this book reveals the common ground in experiences and meaning-making through culture, art and beauty.
Bracketing the theological-philosophical debate over who is right—theists or nontheists—this book looks at the work and aims of the people supporting either position, and how we make meaning in a time of increasing division.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by William Marsh Rice University
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on Presentation
Introduction, Anthony B. Pinn (Rice University, USA)
Section One: Creatively Human
1. “Small Creatures and Deep Connections”, Sasha Sagan (international speaker and filmmaker, USA)
2. “Grieving While Disbelieving”, Candace Gorham (mental health professional, author and secular activist, USA)
3. “When to Walk, When to Fight”, Nadya Dutchin (Executive Director of ShareBaby, USA)
4. “Freethought and Black Personhood”, Christopher Cameron (University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA)
5. “Seeing the Secular”, Phil Zuckerman (Pitzer College, USA)
Section Two: Human Creativity
6. “The Afrofuturistic Gardener”, Angelbert Metoyer (artist, USA)
7. “A Serious Sense of Play”, Jamal Cyrus (Texas Southern University, USA)
8.“Art Imitating Life”, Jeremiah Camara (author and film maker, USA)
9. “The Raw Truth of Hip Hop”, Harry Allen (hip hop activist, journalist, and advisor to the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University, USA)
10. “We’re Still Here!”, Valerie Oliver (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA)
11. “On Black AI”, Philip Butler (Iliff School of Theology, USA)
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