Enchanting powers
Subtitle: music in the world's religions
By: edited by Lawrence E. Sullivan.
Contributors: Sullivan, Lawrence Eugene, 1949-
Series: Religions of the world; Religions of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Music -- Religious aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tantrism, rasa, and Javanese gamelan music / Judith Becker; title: World musics and world religions : whose world / Philip V. Bohlman; title: Music and historical consciousness among the Dagbamba of Ghana / John Chernoff; title: Historicism and the quest of D/divine music / Michael W. Harris; title: "Musicalizing" the Other : shamanistic approaches to ethnic-class competition among the upper Rio Negro / Jonathan D. Hill; title: Conceptualizations of music in Jewish mysticism / Moshe Idel; title: Music, myth, and medicine in the Choctaw Indian ballgame / Victoria Lindsay Levin; title: Islam and music : the legal and the spiritual dimensions / Seyyed Hossein Nasr; title: Music and the Confucian sacrificial ceremony / Rulan Chao Pian; title: Sounding the Word : music in the life of Islam / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi; title: Mythologies and realities in the study of Jewish music / Kay Kaufman Shelemay.