Personal Jesus How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls

Name: Personal Jesus How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls
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ISBN: 9780801039096

ISBN-10: 0801039096

ISBN-13: 9780801039096

Edition: 2013

Authors: Clive Marsh, Vaughan S. Roberts, Tom Beaudoin

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Pop music is now an ever-present force shaping citizens in the West. Even at funerals, pop music is often requested over hymns. But how does popular music work? And what roles does it play for listeners who engage it? This new addition to the critically acclaimed Engaging Culture series explores the theological significance of the ways pop music is listened to and used today.The authors show that popular music is used by religious and nonreligious people alike to make meaning, enabling listeners to explore human concerns about embodiment, creating communities, and tapping into transcendence. They assess what is happening to Christian faith and theology as a result. The book incorporates…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

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Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Music and Religion



Music in Context: Contemporary Discussion about Religion and Popular Culture



Explorations in Affective Space: The Magisteria-Ibiza Spectrum



Acknowledging a Theological Interest: Popular Music from Sin to Sacramentality



Living by Pop Music



Pop Music in the Marketplace



Pop Music and the Body



The Tingle Factor: Popular Music and Transcendence Today



Pop Music, Ritual, and Worship



What's on Your iPod? Classics, Canons, and the Question of What Matters



Pop Music and Theology



The Discipline of Listening: How (and Why) What We're Doing with Music Matters Ultimately



Three Steps to Heaven? On Negotiating Meaning between Popular Music and Christian Theology



Embodied Social Rituals: Revisiting Theology through Popular Music


A Programmatic Postscript: Practical Consequences for Church, Academy, and Daily Living


Notes


Bibliography


Subject Index


Music Index