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urn:uuid:94c92bfe-5893-4c4d-95b0-9ea2d380b030 03 01 01 urn:uuid:94c92bfe-5893-4c4d-95b0-9ea2d380b030 15 9781805113041 06 10.11647/OBP.0403 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Music and Spirituality Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Christian Worship 1 B01 21 0000-0002-7043-3253 George Corbett 2 B01 21 0000-0003-2279-9274 Sarah Moerman 01 eng 00 478 03 12 AVA 93 AVLK 10 MUS048000 B2 Music 20 Spiritual B2 Archaeology and Religion 12 AVGD 93 AVLA 10 MUS048010 20 Western culture 93 AVA 20 Christianity 12 HRCR 10 REL055000 20 Musicology 93 QRVJ1 20 Ethnomusicology 20 Neuroscience 03 00 The composer Sir James MacMillan has often referred to music as ‘the most spiritual of the arts’, and for many people, regardless of religious affiliation, this rings true. In listening to music, we are drawn to dimensions of human experience beyond the material. This collection brings together leading scholars from various disciplines – including Christian theology, musicology, and psychology and neuroscience – to interrogate the intimate relationship between music and spirituality. Organised in three parts – theological approaches, empirical methods, and Christian worship – the volume covers a vibrant array of topics. From examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the profile of contemporary worship to investigating the spiritual effects of bodily positioning in liturgical spaces, from exploring spiritual experience through heart and breathing activity, electrodermal activity, and saliva samples to comparing the spiritual experiences of British Methodists with Welsh sporting fans, these essays attend to the lived reality of people’s perceived spiritual experiences through music.This collection will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the growing field of Christian theology and music, and will serve as a cornerstone for future research at the intersection of theology, music, and psychology and neuroscience. It will also appeal to anyone curious about why music consistently, across cultures, occupies a unique space bridging the material and spiritual dimensions of human life. 04 00 Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction Foreword: A Composer’s Perspective I. THEOLOGICAL APPROACHES 1. Encountering the Uncontrollable: Music’s Resistance to Reductionism and Its Theological Ramifications 2. Cross and Consolation: Music’s Empathic Spirituality 3. Music, Breath, and Spirit 4. An Adorative Posture towards Music and Spiritual Realities 5. Religion, Science, and Music: An Augustinian Trinity 6. Dissonant Spirituality: A Hermeneutical Aesthetics of Outlaw Country II. EMPIRICAL METHODS 7. From the Sacred to the Ordinary through the Lens of Psychological Science 8. An Inquiry into Musical Trance 9. An Ethnomusicology of Spiritual Realities 10. The Concept of ‘Atmosphere’ as a Bridge between Music and Spirituality 11. Spiritual Subjects: Musicking, Biography, and the Connections We Make 12. The Impetus to Compose: Where is Fantasy Bred? III. CHRISTIAN WORSHIP 13. Music in Christian Services as a Means to Induce Religious Feelings 14. Spiritual Cultures: Innovations in Choral and Classical Music 15. Listening to the Lived Experiences of Worshippers: A Study of Post-Pandemic Mixed Ecology Worship 16. An Abductive Study of Digital Worship through the Lenses of Netnography and Digital Ecclesiology 17. Choral Singers and Spiritual Realities:A Perspective from St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral 18. Music and Spirituality in Communal Song: Methodists and Welsh Sporting Crowds Afterword: A Psychologist’s Perspective List of Figures and Tables Bibliography Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20240628 13 15 9781805113034 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0403.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0403 99 01