Monica Miller Hip-Hop & Religion photos by L. Kasimu Harris

Dr. Monica Miller, an Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies and the Director of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Lehigh University delivered ‘Respect the Technique’: How Hip Hop’s “God Complex” Changed the Face of Black Religion, draws from Real Recognize Read: Aporetic Flows and the Presence of New Black Godz in Hip Hop, a book that also features Michael Eric Dyson and two chapters from Miller and Religion in Hip Hop: Mapping the New Terrain in the US and then a second lecture for Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough's Phi #444 class