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Music in American religious experience / edited by Philip V. Bohlman, Edith L. Blumhofer, Maria M. Chow.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Religious aspects--Congresses.
- Music.
- United States--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 350 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Musical experience intersects with religious experience, posing challenging questions about the ways in which Americans, historical communities and new immigrants, and racial and ethnic groups, construct their sense of self. This book is the study the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States.
- Contents:
- Experience and identity
- Liturgy, humnody, and song
- Individuals and the agency of faith
- Congregation and community.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held at the U. of Chicago, Apr. 22-24, 1994 (p. ix).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988388-2
- 0-19-972138-6
- 0-19-517303-1
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