Course Title:
Sound, Music, and Religion
Course Description:
Explores the relationship between religion, sound, and musical expression. Particular attention is paid to the interpretive and symbolic understandings of sonic expressions of religiosity including chanting, mantra use, choir and congregational singing, and speaking in tongues. Objectives are to familiarize the students with some of the key sonic expressions within the Christian, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, to explore the methods of studying musical and sonic theology, and to analyze these traditions’ own debates about the use of sound and music in religious practice.
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Additional Information:
Approved course: Arts & Sciences Core-Diversity
Approved course: NU Core-Arts/Humanities Level 1
Approved course: NU Core-Comparative Study of Cultures
