Religion and Popular Music in Europe: New Expressions of Sacred and Secular Identity

by Andreas Hager and Keith Kahn-Harris

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848858094
• ISBN13: 9781848858091
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"