Table of Contents

Introduction: sound clash: theology, culture and the Black Atlantic PART 1 Church hall, dancehall and resistance 1 Theorising the politics of sound 2 Diasporic dialogue: the emergence of sound systems and Pentecostal churches 3 The set and the spirit: dancehall and church hall as cultural resistance PART 2 Dub, interpretation and Christology 4 The gospel of dub: origins and development 5 Dub hermeneutics: form and content 6 Jesus dub 7 Echo chamber: dialogue with William (Lez) Henry PART 3 Dub, theology and social change 8 Spirit dub: towards heteroglossia 9 Prosperity dub: commonwealth economics Conclusion: theology and culture dub

About the Author

Robert Beckford teaches at the University of Birmingham, in the department of American and Canadian Studies. He has written several books in the field of Black theology and Black culture in Britain, including God and the Gangs (2004), God of the Rahtid (2003), Dread and the Pentecostal (2000) and Jesus is Dread (1998). As well as writing and teaching, Robert is a British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) award-winning documentary presenter, working with Channel 4 television.