(White)washing our sins away : American mainline churches, music, power, and diversity / Deborah Justice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Justice, Deborah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--Protestant churches.

Church music.

Church music--United States.

Public worship--Social aspects--United States.

Public worship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]

Summary:

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.

Contents:

Introduction. Academica, Presbyterians, and Me

Using Sound to Reconfigure Mainline Protestant Sacred and Social Identity

"The Least Puzzling or Flamboyant of Christians"

Telling the Story of a Useable Past

Interlude

Sonic Diversity : Deciding When to Hear Harmony

"We're Only Medium Contemporary" : Creating Identity Boundaries

Spatial Diversity : Making Places for Traditional and Contemporary Worship

Social Diversity : Defrosting the Frozen Chosen

Conclusion. Music, Faith, and Reconfiguring American Protestant Identities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438489636

1438489633

OCLC:

1333082156