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

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

Vol. 13, no. 2: pp. 300–3 (2024)

Abstract

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.