Hildegard of Bingen's influence extends beyond her time, showcasing her innovative ideas on healing, the arts, and the synergy between science and theology. She emphasizes the importance of both male and female roles and explores the interconnectedness of all aspects of life. Her visionary insights challenge contemporary perspectives, making her a significant figure in both historical and modern contexts.
Exploring the transformative power of music, this volume delves into how mutual musical engagement fosters authentic emotional and spiritual connections, especially during times of isolation and unrest. With scholarly chapters and reflective interludes, it covers themes like relationship building, community wellbeing, and education. Authors address contemporary global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental issues, highlighting music's potential to facilitate deep connections amid challenges. The work emphasizes the significance of music in nurturing healthful, life-affirming experiences.
The book explores the interplay between values and spirituality within European and American theology, highlighting how value systems can be subjugated both individually and socially. It delves into the connections between hidden theological traditions and marginalized value systems, offering insights into their implications for ecclesiology. Through this examination, it seeks to uncover the deeper meanings and impacts of these dynamics on contemporary religious thought and practice.
The relationship between Christian theology and music has been complex since the early days of the Church. The search for the soul led to an increasing body of literature in on spirituality. This book is an attempt to open up a conversation between these related discourses, with contributions reflecting a range of perspectives within them.
This book is an autobiographical account of the development of an authentic interiority, based thematically around the Lord's Prayer. It charts the way in which the Christian faith in which the author was enculturated, was refined by her lived experience of music, abuse, forgiveness, interfaith dialogue, gender and vocation.
This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not religious, and spiritual and religious, looking in particular at the place of faith narratives in various spiritualities. These strands are linked with the domains of the musicking experience: Materials, Expression, Construction and Values. The book sets out a model of the spiritual experience as a negotiated relationship between the musicker and the music. It looks in detail at various models of musicking drawn from music therapy, ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural studies. It examines the relationship between Christianity and music as well as examining some practical projects showing the effect of various Value systems in musicking, particularly in intercultural dialogue. It finally proposes an ecclesiology of musical events that includes both orate and literate traditions and so is supportive of inclusive community.
This book explores the alliance of theology and music in the Christian liturgical tradition, interrogating the challenges posed by the gendered nature of church leadership in many areas of its life. It examines the relationship between theology, spirituality and music, concentrating on women’s perceptions of these. The title draws on the Report of the Archbishop’s Commission on Church Music from 1992 which was entitled In Tune with Heaven. It questions the absence of women’s voices and experiences from the literature and attempts to redress this. It sets out the values that underpin Christian musical liturgical traditions primarily in Europe and the USA with a view to understanding where women are situated within or outside these traditions. It draws on material from many interviews with contemporary practitioners from a variety of contexts. It does not set out to be a definitive history of women in these traditions but simply to give some small vignettes that illustrate a variety of positions that they have occupied in various denominations – and thus make their often hidden contributions more visible.
This book is the product of a long journey by a company of academics and practitioners sharing a common interest, entitled the Spirituality and Music Education Group (SAME). It is a product of the various meetings of this group and represents a fascinating array of lenses through which to examine the many and complex strands within spirituality.