UID:
kobvindex_HPB1449554476
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
1805113046
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9781805113072
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1805113070
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9781805113058
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1805113054
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9781805113041
Content:
The composer Sir James MacMillan has often referred to music as 'the most spiritual of the arts', and for many people, regardless of religious affiliation, this rings true. In listening to music, we are drawn to dimensions of human experience beyond the material. This collection brings together leading scholars from various disciplines - including Christian theology, musicology, and psychology and neuroscience - to interrogate the intimate relationship between music and spirituality. Organised in three parts - theological approaches, empirical methods, and Christian worship - the volume covers a vibrant array of topics. From examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the profile of contemporary worship to investigating the spiritual effects of bodily positioning in liturgical spaces, from exploring spiritual experience through heart and breathing activity, electrodermal activity, and saliva samples to comparing the spiritual experiences of British Methodists with Welsh sporting fans, these essays attend to the lived reality of people's perceived spiritual experiences through music. This collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the growing field of Christian theology and music, and will serve as a cornerstone for future research at the intersection of theology, music, and psychology and neuroscience. It will also appeal to anyone curious about why music consistently, across cultures, occupies a unique space bridging the material and spiritual dimensions of human life.
Note:
Introduction / George Corbett and Sarah Moerman -- Foreword : 'A Composer's Perspective' / James MacMillan -- I. THEOLOGICAL APPROACHES. 1. Encountering the Uncontrollable: Music's Resistance to Reductionism and Its Theological Ramifications / Jeremy Begbie -- 2. Cross and Consolation: Music's Empathic Spirituality / Peter C. Bouteneff -- 3. Music, Breath, and Spirit / Michael O'Connor -- 4. An Adorative Posture towards Music and Spiritual Realities / Férdia J. Stone-Davis -- 5. Religion, Science, and Music : An Augustinian Trinity / Bennett Zon -- 6. Dissonant Spirituality : A Hermeneutical Aesthetics of Outlaw Country / Charles Howell -- II. EMPIRICAL METHODS. 7. From the Sacred to the Ordinary through the Lens of Psychological Science / David M. Greenberg -- 8. An Inquiry into Musical Trance / Dilara Turan -- 9. An Ethnomusicology of Spiritual Realities / Jeffers Engelhardt -- 10. The Concept of 'Atmosphere' as a Bridge between Music and Spirituality / Bernard Łukasz Sawicki OSB -- 11. Spiritual Subjects: Musicking, Biography, and the Connections We Make / Maeve Louise Heaney VDMF -- 12. The Impetus to Compose : Where is Fantasy Bred? / Richard E. McGregor -- III. CHRISTIAN WORSHIP. 13. Music in Christian Services as a Means to Induce Religious Feelings / Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann -- 14. Spiritual Cultures : Innovations in Choral and Classical Music / Jonathan Arnold -- 15. Listening to the Lived Experiences of Worshippers : A Study of Post-Pandemic Mixed Ecology Worship / Elspeth Manders -- 16. An Abductive Study of Digital Worship through the Lenses of Netnography and Digital Ecclesiology / Tihomir Lazić -- 17. Choral Singers and Spiritual Realities : A Perspective from St Mary's Catholic Cathedral / Michael Ferguson -- 18. Music and Spirituality in Communal Song : Methodists and Welsh Sporting Crowds / Martin V. Clarke -- Afterword : 'A Psychologist's Perspective' / John Sloboda.
Language:
English
URL:
Open Book Publishers
URL:
https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=31520027
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