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Singing the Right Way enters the world of Orthodox Christianity in Estonia to explore the significance of musical style in worship, cultural identity, and social imagination. Through a series of ethnographic and historical chapters, author Jeffers Engelhardt focuses on how Orthodox Estonians give voice to the religious absolute in secular society to live Christ-like lives.
About the author
Jeffers Engelhardt is an Associate Professor of Music at Amherst College. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Oberlin College, his research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. His second book, a co-edited volume titled Resounding Transcendence: Transitions in Music, Religion, and Ritual, will also be published by Oxford University Press.
Summary
Singing the Right Way enters the world of Orthodox Christianity in Estonia to explore the significance of musical style in worship, cultural identity, and social imagination. Through a series of ethnographic and historical chapters, author Jeffers Engelhardt focuses on how Orthodox Estonians give voice to the religious absolute in secular society to live Christ-like lives.
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Engelhardt has studied Estonian Orthodox singing with the utmost care and dedication, including, significantly, the lived faith of Orthodox believers the everyday rituals that Orthodox Christians in Estonia practice. Magically, Engelhardt's work makes the transformations of congregations and singing in the Orthodox Church of Estonia visible and audible to readers, opening up the different worlds and ideologies of a small community under a microscope's lens.
