Music and Spirituality / / Thérèse Smith [and nine others].

• VerfasserIn: Smith, Thérèse,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 pages) :; illustrations

Across time and geography people have known the power of music for evoking the gods and acquiring spiritual insight. Whether arising as a textless chant by a single voice or a percussive auditory context for ritual dance, music in its various modes is a virtually ubiquitous companion to religious an...

Table of Contents

• Music and Spirituality - Introduction
• The Offence of Beauty in Modern Western Art Music
• Can Music "Mirror" God? A Theological-Hermeneutical exploration of Music in the Light of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel
• A Perfect Chord: Trinity in Music, Music in the Trinity
• The Seraphim above: Some Perspectives on the Theology of Orthodox Church Music
• Music and Spirituality: Reflections from a Western Christian Perspective
• Dominican Chant and Dominican Identity
• The Liturgical Use of the Organ in the Sixteenth Century: The Judgments of Cajetan and the Dominican Order
• "To Sing with the Spirit:" Psalms, Hymns and the Spirituality of Late Eighteenth Century American Presbyterians
• "There is a Higher Height in the Lord": Music, Worship, and Communication with God
• Elvis' Gospel Music: Between the Secular and the Spiritual?
• Are Spiritual Experiences through Music seen as Intrinsic or Extrinsic?