...This chapter lays out the book’s major argument, that digital Black Christians, through their webwork (networked racial religious performativity), have created a new space in and beyond the Black Church, one that is linguistic and socio-temporal in design. In the process...

... that undervalues black labor. Black Lives Matter BLM movement digital Black Christians Henry Glen Beleaf Melanin online racial justice movements Sims Natalie Lauren Corrigan Thomas creatives Davis Angela gender dynamics “housewifization ” Kuehn Kathleen labor Black bodies capitalism Sharpe Christina...

... and the future of digital Black Christians and the Black Church. In light of this, the author suggests a new direction in how we study people of faith of all ages and races, and in what constitutes “committed adherents.” We must look more closely at the relationships, identity formations, valuation...

...Through the story of Jamaica West, this chapter walks the physical and interior geography of digital Black Christianity. In the process, it examines the relationship between digital Black Christians and physically located churches headed by digital Black Christians and/or originated by the urban...

... and explains why the author instead uses the term digital Black Christian. In the process, the chapter explores the role of technology and hip hop in shaping the religious context of the creatives studied in this book. In examining the epochal moments in Lecrae’s life, this chapter is as much...

...The chapter examines how digital discipleship occurs among many young Black Christians seeking intimacy. It discusses the historical, digital, and theological relationship between white evangelicals and digital Black Christians through the lives of Joseph Solomon and Propaganda. Both...

...Through a digital ethnography of the lives of young adult Black Christians this book examines hip hop as a deeply spiritual practice. This work argues that digital Black Christians have created a new space in and beyond the Black Church, one that is linguistic and socio-temporal in design...