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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris is an independent scholar, an associate lecturer at the Open University, an associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College and a founder of the Centre for New Jewish Thought. His website is www.kahn-harris.org. Keith Kahn-Harris is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and the convenor of New Jewish Thought (www.newjewishthought.org). His website is www.kahn-harris.org Klappentext Music and religion have, throughout history, walked hand in hand. In the rites and rituals of small tribal religions, great world religions, and more recent New-Age and neo-heathen movements, different kinds of music have been used to celebrate the gods, express belief and help believers get in contact with the divine. This innovative book focuses on how mainstream and counter-cultural groups use religion and music to negotiate the challenges of modernisation and globalisation in the European context: a region under-explored by existing literature on the subject. With its internal ethnic diversity, ever-expanding borders and increasing differentiation, Europe has undergone massive dislocation in recent years. The authors show that, in the midst of such change, rock, pop and dance music may in their various forms be used by their practitioners as resources for new kinds of spiritual and religious identification, even as these forms are used as symbols of the deficiencies of secular society. Focusing on Christianity, Judaism, Islam and New Religious Movements, the book explores such topics as Norwegian Black Metal and Neo-paganism, contemporary Jewish Music in the UK, the French hip hop scene, the musical thinking of Muslim convert Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and European dance music culture. It offers an ideal introduction to leading-edge thinking at the exciting interface of 'music and religion'.Focusing on Christianity, Judaism, Islam and New Religious Movements, the book explores such topics as Norwegian Black Metal and Neo-paganism, contemporary Jewish Music in the UK, the French hip hop scene, the musical thinking of Muslim convert Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and European dance music culture. Zusammenfassung Focusing on Christianity, Judaism, Islam and New Religious Movements, the book explores such topics as Norwegian Black Metal and Neo-paganism, contemporary Jewish Music in the UK, the French hip hop scene, the musical thinking of Muslim convert Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and European dance music culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Thomas Bossius, Keith Kahn-Harris & Andreas Häger Popular Music and Religion in Europe - Introduction Andreas Häger Jerusalem in Uppsala. Some Accounts of the Relationship Between a Christian Rock Group and its Congregation Marcus Moberg Christian Metal in Finland. Institutional Religion and Popular Music in the midst of Religious Change Thomas Bossius Shout to the Lord. Christian Worship Music as Popular Culture, Church Music, and Life Style Keith Kahn-Harris Jews United and Divided by Music. Contemporary Jewish Music in the UK and America Göran Larsson The Return of Ziryab. Yusuf Islam on Music Stéphanie Molinero The Meanings of the Religious Talk in French Rap Music Gry Mørk Why Didn't the Churches Begin to Burn a Thousand Years Earlier? Rupert Till 21st Century Trance Cult. Electronic Dance Music Culture and its Role in Replacing the Traditional Roles of Religions within Western European Popular Youth Culture References ...
