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Sacred Music and Hindu Religious Experience: From Ancient Roots to the Modern Classical Tradition

Religions, 2019
While music plays a significant role in many of the world’s religions, it is in the Hindu religion that one finds one of the closest bonds between music and religious experience extending for millennia.
Guy L. Beck
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Italian sacred music listed in the catalogue of Dresden's Catholic court church, 1765

Musicologica Brunensia, 2018
Analysis of more than 800 items of sacred music listed in the thematic catalogue ("Catalogo della Musica di Chiesa composta Da diversi Autori – secondo l'Alfabetto 1765") of Dresden's Catholic court church (the Hofkirche) demonstrates the dependence of ...
Janice B Stöckigt
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A Choral Meditation: Fusing Past and Present in the Sacred Music of Eoghan Desmond

Religions
Choral music and the sacred have been intertwined since the Middle Ages. With the increasing secularisation of society, it is notable that the sacred choral canon continues to expand and attract audiences in religious and secular spaces, underlining the ...
Laura Sheils
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Not Secular: Interrogating the Sacred-Secular Binary through Gospel-Pop Performance

Religions, 2023
Secularisation theory proposed that the modernisation of society would bring about a decline in religiosity across the West, leading to ‘entzauberung’ (disenchantment). Eventually, society would be devoid of belief in the transcendent.
Matthew A. Williams
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“All you have created rightly gives you praise”

Ex Fonte, 2022
This essay challenges interpretations of Christian worship that have constricted the understanding of who worships in starkly anthropocentric ways.
Teresa Berger
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Time for Solidarity: Liturgical Time in Disaster Capitalism

Religions, 2021
This article identifies the upheaval of many people’s experience of time during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a larger phenomenon of the 24/7 temporality that can be seen to contribute to the environmental destruction and social fragmentation typical ...
Mark Roosien
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Duchovní hudba a česká hudební kultura v devadesátých letech minulého století

Musicologica Brunensia, 2019
The study brings the synthetic overview of the Czech sacred music development in 1990– 2000. The Czech musical culture has shown the significantly increased interest in the genre of sacred music as the result of political and social changes after 1989 ...
Eva Vičarová, Kateřina Janíčková
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Theology of Music and Hindu Religion: From Divine Origins to Classical Songs

Religions, 2021
As a subfield in the study of religion and music, the theology of music is generally understood in Western terms. Yet to fully encompass the rich heritage of music in world religions, the theology of music must welcome non-Western traditions.
Guy L. Beck
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The Ibtihalat in the Digital Age: Public and Private Domains

Religions, 2021
One of the most popular cultures in Islam is the genre of “hymns” or “invocations” (pl. ibtihalat, sing. ibtihal), which has recently been amplified on social media platforms.
Heba Arafa Abdelfattah
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Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography

Southern Spaces, 2007
This essay explores the history, geography, and contemporary practices of Sacred Harp—one form of a cappella, shape-note music—in the US South. The roots of Sacred Harp extend back to an eighteenth-century New England singing-school movement that spread ...
James B. Wallace
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