Music and Religious Change among Progressive Jews in London (eBook)

Being Liberal and Doing Traditional

Ruth Illman (Autor)

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2018
182 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4221-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book analyses the role of music in processes of religious change in contemporary progressive Judaism. Based on ethnographic research conducted in London, it illustrates a growing trend among progressive Jews in the West today: the desire to combine liberal theology with forms of practice experienced as more traditional.

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This book analyses religion and change in relation to music within the context of contemporary progressive Judaism. It argues that music plays a central role as a driving force for religious change, comprising several elements seen as central to contemporary religiosity in general: participation, embodiment, experience, emotions and creativity. Focusing on the progressive Anglo-Jewish milieu today, the study investigates how responses to these processes of change are negotiated individually and collectively and what role is allotted to music in this context. Building on ethnographic research conducted at Leo Baeck College in London (20142016), it maps how theologically unsystematic life-views take form through everyday musical practices related to institutional religion, identifying three theoretically relevant processes at work: the reflexive turn, the turn within and the turn to tradition.

Autor

Ruth Illman is docent (associate professor) of comparative religion at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and history of religions at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is currently the director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland.

Inhalt

Introduction1. Theoretical Starting Points2. Entering the Ethnographic Field3. Dinah: Radical and Liberal in Theology, Traditional in Practice 4. Micah: Music as a Bridge between Diverse Jewish Experiences5. Esther: Singing as a Form of Understanding6. David: The Wish to Have a Broader Sort of Thing7. Rachel: “It’s Not the Words, It’s the Melodies”Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Anglo-Jewish milieu • Contemporary Judaism • ethnography • European Jewry • Hebrew • Jewish music • Jews in the UK • Judaism • Leo Baeck College • Liberal Theology • London • music • Niggunim • nusach • Progressive Judaism • Reflexive Turn • Religion, Music and Change • vernacular religion
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4221-2 / 1498542212
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4221-0 / 9781498542210