Music and faith : conversations in a post-secular age / Jonathan Arnold.
This book explores examples of how the Christian story is still expressed in music and how it is received by those who experience that art form, whether in church or not. Through conversations with a variety of writers, artists, scientists, historians, atheists, church laity and clergy, the term pos...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Faith, belief and post-secularism
- Music, morality and meaning: our medieval heritage
- Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
- Eye music
- Interlude I: 'O Sisters too': reviving the medieval in post-secular Britain
- Singing in the synchrony: music, bonding and human evolution
- 'Fear of the mystery': music, faith and the brain
- Music and faith under persecution
- Interlude II: An echo of the spheres in the shires: the enduring appeal of sacred music at the Three Choirs Festival
- Music, faith and atheism
- 'Changing the rumour about God': music and Anglican clergy
- Music, faith and the laity.