Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North : Senses, Media and Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lorea, Carola Erika, 1987-

Contributor:

Hackett, Rosalind I. J.

Series:

Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Global Asia Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound and various sonic ontologies to usher in a more inclusive global anthro-history of religious sounds. This edited volume implements a “sonic turn” in the study of religion by engaging with a diversity of auditory, musical, and embodied practices. Dislodging the Global North as the main point of reference for studies on religious sound, this volume proposes an acoustemology of the post-secular with an emphasis on Asia as method. Unsettling and expanding existing discussions on senses, media, and power, editors Carola E. Lorea and Rosalind I. J. Hackett present religious sounds as co-creating subjectivities and collectivities that coalesce around audible aesthetic formations. This volume demonstrates that religious sounds are not only produced by certain religious traditions but also produce communities, shaping the self and sensitivity of those who participate.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Audiovisual samples

List of Illustrations, (Verse) Samples and Captions

Introduction: The Potential of a Sonic Turn. Toward an Acoustemology of the Post-Secula

1 Speaking in Tongues in Comparative Contexts and their Digital Soundscapes

2 Sonic Ways to Embodied Remembrance: Sufi dhikr in an Italian Roma camp

3 Aural Auras of Inner Sounds: Conch Shells, Ritual Instruments, and Devotional Bodies

4 Sounding Pain: Public-Private Aspects of Shi‘a Women’s Sonic Practices in Muharram

5 Sounds Electronic: New Sonic Mediations of Gender and Spiritual Empowerment

6 Sounding Remembrance, Voicing Mourning: Material, Ethical, and Gendered Productions of a New “Voice” in Shah Jo Rāg

7 Sonic Gendering of Ritual Spaces

8 Sounding Resilience and Resistance: Tarana Songs of Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia

9 Festival as Ritual and Ritual in Festival: Sounding “Exotic Borderlands” in Northern Taiwan

10 Music as Epistemic Bulwark in West Bengal

11 The Power and the Politics of Embodying Dancehall: Reconciling Sonic Affect and the Religious Self in Singapore

12 Performing vs. Recording: The Sound of Modern Bali

13 Amplified Waves: The Politics of Religious Sound in Indonesia and Beyond

14 A Theory of Ritual Polyphony in Chinese Religious Performances

15 The Ensoundments of the Materially Ethereal in Indigenous Riau (Sumatra)

16 Bodies with Songs: The Sounds and Politics of Interstitial Lyrics in Bengali Devotional Performance

Afterword: Sonic Materiality, Religion, and Non-Religion

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-080089-0

90-485-5475-6

9781003702665

OCLC:

1458817889