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Die funksionaliteit van die laat twintigsteeeuse kerklied

In die Skriflig, 2002
The functionality of the late twentieth-century church song In contemporary hymnbooks used by Protestant churches in South Africa, church songs display a variety in style and kind.
D. Kruger
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Sincere Performance in Pentecostal Megachurch Music

Religions, 2018
Drawing on the work of Webb Keane and Joel Robbins in the anthropology of Christianity, furnished with the influential work of Charles Hirschkind in the anthropology of Islam, and the ethnographic studies of Tom Wagner and Mark Jennings on Pentecostal ...
Ibrahim Abraham
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Let a Woman Conduct: Gender Dynamics in Church Choral Ministries within the Baptist Churches of Southwestern Nigeria

African Musicology Online
The paper addresses women's participation in church choral ministries, focusing on women as conductors. Despite the growing recognition of women leaders, women's involvement in music ministries is often challenged by gender- and tradition-based barriers.
Oluseun Sunday Odusanya, Zacchaeus Adelere Adesokan, Damaris T’Oluwalope Aremu, Mary A. Niyi-Ojo, John Ade Aderogba   +4 more
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To Be Seen and Heard: Toward a Child Liberation Theology Framework for Contemporary Praise and Worship Practice

Religions
“If there is no space in our faith communities where children can participate in theological work, how can children create a theology that will liberate them?” R.L. Stollar asks in his book, The Kingdom of Children: A Liberation Theology (2023).
Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
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Bret/BRAT

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nicholas Smart
wiley   +1 more source

What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

From Singing “Out-of-Tone” to Creating Contextualized Cantonese Contemporary Worship Songs: Hong Kong in the Decentralization of Chinese Christianity

Religions
For over a century, Hong Kong Christians have sung Chinese hymns in an “out-of-tone” manner. Lyrics in traditional hymnals were translated or written to be sung in Mandarin, the national language, but most locals speak Cantonese, another Sinitic and ...
Shin Fung Hung
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Using Celebrity to Advance Equality

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
wiley   +1 more source

‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source