Homeland Insecurity : A Hip Hop Missiology for the Post–Civil Rights Context

North American domestic missions are now situated in a complex landscape of changing faith, ethnic diversity, and racial unrest. But most missiological approaches continue under colonialist assumptions and lack the cultural competency to navigate new realities. Missiologist Daniel White Hodge explores the contours of post-civil rights contexts and focuses on Hip Hop theology as a framework for radical engagement of emerging adult populations. He critiques the impaired missiology of imperialist and white supremacist approaches to modern urban and short-term missions. With keen cultural exegesis of the wild, he explores the contours of a more contextualized Hip Hop Jesus. Reexamining the importance of race and ethnicity in mission, Hodge offers theological space for protest and social disruption and suggests conceptual models for domestic missions within a growing multiethnic demographic. Grounded in Hip Hop studies and youth ministry, Hodge constructs a hybridity of lived missiology where dissent and disruption open new possibilities for Christian faith in the twenty-first century. -- ‡c From publisher's description Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Page Contents Foreword by Jude Tiersma Watson Acknowledgments Introduction: A Missiology in an Era of Civil Disruption There Is No Church in the Wild Premise and Structure of This Book Part 1: Elements of an Impaired Missiology 1 What Happened? Christianity and the Theological Turn of the Twentieth Century The White Supremacy of Missions The Emergence of a Post-Soul Context and Shifting Tide for the Church A Proofing and Chaplaincy Christianity Western Confinement of Christianity 2 Missions, Race, and God: The Impairment of Short-Term Missions and White-Led Urban Ministries The Narrative and Voice of Young Adults Multifaceted Inferences The Effects of Passive Racism Part 2: A Cultural Exegesis of the Wild 3 God in Hip Hop: A Conversation on Complexity The Field of Hip Hop Studies The Virtuous in the Paradox of Hip Hop's Theology The Hostility of the Gospel 4 The Jesus of Hip Hop in the Wild: Race, Crisis, and the Pursuit of a Messiah Race, Ethnicity, and Jesus The Jesuz in and of Hip Hop The Outlawz and Black Jesuz Toward Contextualized Images of the Hip Hop Jesus 5 Vignettes of the Post-Soul Voice Three Windows on Faith in the Wild/Post-Soul Context Spiritual Taxonomies of Urban, Multiethnic, Post-Soul Young People Part 3: Church in the Wild: Unconventional Missiology in the Twenty-First Century 6 Communal Connections in the Wild: From Short-Term Missions to Lifelong Relationships Death to Short-Term Missions The Problems Associated with the Discourse of Missions Lifelong Relationships: Beyond Reconciliation 7 Baptized in Dirty Water: Learning from the Post-Soul Missiologists Tupac Amaru Shakur and Kendrick Lamar Situating Tupac in the Post-Soul Context Kendrick Lamar in Post-Soul Conversation Locating Tupac and Lamar’s Missiological Gospel Essence Toward a Missiology of Post-Soul Prophets 8 Beyond Reconciliation in the Wild: The Importance of Engagement with the Intricacies of Race and Ethnicities in Missions and Missiology The Death of and Movement Away from Respectability and Bootstrap Narratives The Death of and Movement Away from White Dominance in Missions Nurturing Doubt and Ambiguity in Missiology 9 A Theology for the Wild: Protest and Civil Disruption as Missiology Reimagining King Nebuchadnezzar in the Context of Empire A Theological Paradigm of Violence and Civil Disruption Final Reflections on a Missiology in the Wild for White Sisters and Brothers 10 Conclusions: Toward a Missiology of the Wild and the Secular, Sacred, and Profane Afterword by Wilbert R. Shenk Bibliography Scripture Index Also by Daniel White Hodge Praise for Homeland Insecurity About the Contributor More Titles from InterVarsity Press Even though the North American context is changing, most missiological approaches continue under colonialist assumptions. Focusing on the framework of Hip Hop theology, Daniel White Hodge shows us how to radically engage with emerging adult populations, critiquing the impaired missiology of imperialist and white supremacist approaches to modern, urban short-term missions. "Homeland Insecurity is Hodge's finest book to date, a must-read for anyone - especially white Christians of any political persiasion - who find themselves working in and with black and brown communities." -- Back cover