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Enchanting Powers: Music in the Worlds Religions (Religions of the World)
from: Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.7
EAN: 9780945454120
ISBN: 0945454120
Label: Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
Manufacturer: Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 329
Publication Date: March 25, 1997
Publisher: Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
Studio: Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
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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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Rating: - Philosophy and anthropology
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 ... Read More
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