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Harmonising Faith and Tradition: Sacred Vocal Polyphony in Contemporary South African Christian Worship [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis study aims to shed light on the intricate relationship between sacred vocal polyphony and the changing landscape of contemporary church music in South Africa.
Sakhiseni Joseph Yende
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Contemporary Christian Music: Where Rock Meets Religion
The Journal of Popular Culture, 1992 .In the midst of this controversial relationship between rock music and religious messages, and as a response to a feeling of being "locked out" of the secular music industry, there has been a burgeoning Christian recording industry using rock music, known as Contemporary Christian Music (CCM).
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Death in Children's Lives: Reimagining Death Literacy in Childhood
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children encounter death in everyday life, through family, peers, media, and health care. Opportunities for meaningful engagement with death‐related topics are limited. In this article, we reimagine death literacy—the knowledge and skills needed to navigate dying, death, and bereavement—through a child‐centred, social constructionist lens ...
Anne‐Sofie Nyström, Rakel Eklund
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Ethnomusicology in Church Music Education: Revitalizing Batak Musical Values and Practices
EdukasiaThis study aims to analyze the role of ethnomusicology in church music education as an effort to revitalize the values and practices of Batak music in the context of contemporary Christian worship.
Boho Parulian Pardede
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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90 Day Fiancé: Presentations of Status Exchange on the International Marriage Market
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines power and status, as constructed by producers on the reality television show 90 Day Fiancé, that comes from being a US citizen on the international marriage market. We investigate what show producers present each partner as offering the other and what this suggests about gender and power in cross‐national ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson +2 more
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Asa, Allyson, and Davies: Three Amazons of Tonal Integrity in Yoruba Vocal Music
Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesThe existing body of literature has engaged the translation of English hymns to the Yorùbá language by European missionaries sung to European tunes, which constituted linguistic distortion of the Yorùbá language. Little or no attention has been given to
Tolu Owoaje, Oluwaseun Owoaje
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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
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Popular culture and the ’darker side’ of alternative spirituality: the case of metal music
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2009 Metal is perhaps the most extreme and aggressive form of contemporary Western popular music. Even though it continues to spark controversy and debate, it has also enjoyed enduring popularity for decades and has spread on a global scale.
Marcus Moberg
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