Early 2000s Insults
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African Battle Traditions of Insult
This book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance. This volume covers the history of this battle tradition, from its origins in Africa, especially the udje and halo of the Urhobo and Ewe respectively, to its transportation to the Americas and the Caribbean region during the Atlantic slave trade period, and its modern and contemporary manifestations as battle rap or other forms of popular music in Africa. Almost everywhere there are contemporary manifestations of the more traditional, older genres. The book is thus made up of studies of contests in which rivals duel for supremacy in verbal arts, song-poetry, and performance as they display their wit, sense of humor, and poetic expertise.
Interrogating the Use of LGBTQ Slurs
Interrogating the Use of LGBTQ Slurs: Still Smearing the Queer? provides a critical exploration of LGBTQ slurs through its innovative focus on hetero-cis-normativity and Norm-Centered Stigma Theory (NCST), the first-ever testable theory about stigma. Based on research with more than 3,000 respondents, the ways gender/sexuality norm-violators are stigmatized and disciplined as “others” through asserting and affirming one’s own social power are highlighted alongside other unique elements of slur use (joking and bonding). Through its fresh and in-depth approach, this book is the ideal resource for those who want to learn about LGBTQ slurs more generally and for those who seek a nuanced, theory-driven, and intersectional examination of how these LGBTQ prejudices function. In doing so, it is the most comprehensive scholarly resource to date that critically examines the use of LGBTQ slurs and thus, has the potential to have broad impacts on society at large by helping to improve the LGBTQ cultural climate. Interrogating the use of LGBTQ Slurs: Still Smearing the Queer? is important reading for scholars and students in the fields of LGBTQ studies, Gender Studies, Criminology, and Sociology.
Growing Up Pentecostal
Author: Phil Matarese
language: en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2026-01-30
In this memoir of spiritual autobiography, Phil Matarese tells his story of growing up in an unusual religious environment, where angels and demons were real as Hell. At the church of his childhood anyone who was “spiritual” had encounters with supernatural beings—it was the expectation. This church even experienced a miraculous event involving angels, where there were exorcisms, healings, and people being slain in the Spirit. Matarese later came to doubt much of what he experienced as a child and went on his own religious quest in college to find himself spiritually. Needless to say, he had a lot to deconstruct. Of course, this is also a coming-of-age story as an awkward, quiet kid just wanted to be cool, to have friends, skateboard, and listen to punk rock. Yet, that doesn’t fit very well in an environment focused on holiness, which caused clashes with parents and church leaders. This narrative is an easy-to-read story; however, Phil Matarese draws on theology, philosophy, psychology, and pop culture. He examines such theological concepts as speaking in tongues and the rapture. Humor often lightens the tone in otherwise very serious subject matter.