Underneath the Surface: African American Religion and Tattoo Culture
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2017-10-23
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This dissertation is an exploration of the relationship between religion and tattooing, a form of body modification, within the African American community. I argue that tattooing should be included as source material for the study of black religion, because it is an embodied, cultural product that often captures black experience, black cultural memory, black ethics, black history, black social analysis and identity.
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Doctor of Philosophy
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tattooing, religion, African American, embodiment
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Jeffries, Jason O.. "Underneath the Surface: African American Religion and Tattoo Culture." (2017) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105577.
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