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Religion and Popular Music in Europe: New Expressions of Sacred and Secular Identity

Religion and Popular Music in Europe: New Expressions of Sacred and Secular Identity

Bossius, Thomas
Hager, Andreas
Kahn-Harris, Keith

Hardcover

Series: Library of Modern Religion, Book 18

Religion General Music Reference

ISBN10: 1848858094
ISBN13: 9781848858091
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 24 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Music and religion have, throughout history, walked hand in hand. In the rites and rituals of small tribal religions, great world religions, and more recent New-Age and neo-heathen movements, different kinds of music have been used to celebrate the gods, express belief and help believers get in contact with the divine. This innovative book focuses on how mainstream and counter-cultural groups use religion and music to negotiate the challenges of modernisation and globalisation in the European context: a region under-explored by existing literature on the subject. With its internal ethnic diversity, ever-expanding borders and increasing differentiation, Europe has undergone massive dislocation in recent years. The authors show that, in the midst of such change, rock, pop and dance music may in their various forms be used by their practitioners as resources for new kinds of spiritual and religious identification, even as these forms are used as symbols of the deficiencies of secular society.

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