The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball ga$ the "drum history" of the Dagbamba, the chanting of the Qur'an--these$ some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays by eminent musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and religionists as they consider the intersection and interconnection of musics and religions$ different world cultures.
Contributors: Judith Becker, Philip V. Bohlman, John M. Chernoff, Michael W. Harris, Jonathan Hill, Moshe Idel, Victoria Lindsay Levine$ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Rulan Chao Pian, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Kay Kaufman Shelemay.
This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.
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This is a collection of papers that are related in some way to the topics of religion and music. I approached this book with several questions: What is the role of music in the religions of the world? What is the attitude of world religions towards music? However, very few essays in this book address these questions directly. In most similar books of edited papers, the introduction contains an overview of all the papers and how they fit together. Instead, Sullivan writes in his introduction a very... more info
