Review of Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop, by Erika D. Gault
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Review of Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop, by Erika D. Gault

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (2024). In this review of Erika D. Gault's Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop (NYU Press, 2022), I discuss Gault’s digital ethnographic approach to learning more about “digital Black Christians” (her chosen signifier for what others might call Black Millennials) and her findings about how those digital Black Christians — primarily “creatives” and “thought leaders” (or, to others, “influences”) — impact theological discourses and Christian communities outside of defined religious hierarchies and churches.

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Review of Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America, by Ari Y. Kelman
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Review of Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America, by Ari Y. Kelman

Yale Journal of Music and Religion (2020). In this review of Ari Y. Kelman's Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in Evangelical America (NYU Press, 2018), I describe the strengths and challenges of examining the cultural production of worship music thematically, as Kelman has chosen to focus on songwriting, worship leading, and the music industry in sequence.

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