Remixing The center: Missional frameworks from young adult lenses via Hip Hop culture

Abstract

This article contends that mission practice can learn from Hip Hop culture. The article looks to Hip Hop culture to glean tools and frameworks for missionally engaging youth and young adults. Specifically, the article describes the processes of sampling, mixing, and poiesis and, then, offers missional applications. There is an explicit invitation for youth and young adults to be involved in sampling and mixing the missional and missiological classics in order to engage in a poiesis. In providing this application there is also the positing of understanding our current societal conditions under the heading of pericolonial, as opposed to postcolonial. The term pericolonial is not offered as it is used in archaeology and anthropology. Rather the state of perimenopause is centered, as one of the foci of the article is also how mission can make space for women and marginalized voices.