From Ghetto to Gods, from Protest to Priest: The (pro)creative transformation of Self in Five Percenter Rap and its analogies to sapiential traditions in Islamic theology

New York, État de New York, États-Unis: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) (forthcoming)
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This chapter aims at pointing out the correspondences between the transformative Five Percenter process of self-cultivation outlined in the Supreme Mathematics and previous interpretations articulated and transmitted in the sapiential traditions of Islam, Christianity, or Taoism.

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