Music and Religion

Music and Religion Volume 1 explores the complex intersection of sound and faith. Jeffers Engelhardt examines how practitioners and scholars navigate the entanglement of music and religion, challenging the traditional separation of these two fields. This academic work focuses on ethnomusicology and the evolving relationship between researchers and other-than-human agency within religious contexts.

The text analyzes the shift from secular models toward sacred musicologies and the decolonization of the discipline. Through ethnographic case studies and a survey of key texts from the eighteenth century to the present, this volume addresses critical questions regarding audibility and divine knowledge. It serves as a scholarly resource for those studying religious music, including Christian and Jewish traditions, by integrating cultural approaches with non-secular perspectives on sound.