{"product_id":"music-theology-and-justice-9781498538688","title":"Music Theology and Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMusic does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make itspiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economicallyfor good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays explore the ethical and doctrinal implications of music-making. The reflections are grouped according to the traditional threefold ministry of Christ: prophet, priest, and shepherd: the prophetic role of music, as a means of articulating protest against injustice, offering consolation, and embodying a harmonious order; the pastoral role of music: creating and sustaining community, building peace, fostering harmony with the whole of creation; and the priestly role of music: in service of reconcilia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a much-needed volume. As the theology and music conversation develops, it is all too easy to forget the embeddedness of music in webs of social interaction, including the struggle for justice. An imaginative, sophisticated and highly readable collection. -- Jeremy Begbie, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eWhat can music tell us about the nature of Christian justice? Music, Theology, and Justice teaches us in a probing set of compellingly argued essays spanning the middle ages to the present, from Hildegard to Daft Punk and Mechthild of Hackeborn to Sting…a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of music theology and an incisive exploration of inter-related concepts, histories and disciplines. -- Bennett Zon, Durham University\u003cbr\u003eThis is a deeply moving and strikingly original collection of essays, offering eloquent testimony to the transformative power of music as an agent of Christian ministry. The editors’ approach to organizing their far-ranging materials according to the three Old Testament ministerial roles of prophet, shepherd, and priest as embodied in Christ is brilliant, creating a cohesive and compelling demonstration of the profound interlace between music, theology, and justice across an astonishingly wide span of space, time, and musical style. From medieval Germany to modern Bosnia, from plainsong to punk rock, the thirteen contributors chart music’s potent ethical capacity to enact, express, and empower positive spiritual and social change. -- M. Jennifer Bloxam, Williams College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003ePart One: A Prophetic Role for Music: Protest and Liberation\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Turning Hymns into Protest: Zilphia Horton and the Role of Musical Memory in Labor in the New Deal Era \u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Punk Rock and\/as Liberation Theology\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Mercy, Music, and the Prophetic Voice of Theology: Jon Sobrino’s Extra Pauperes Nulla Salus\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: A Prophetic Role for Music: A Response and Synthesis \u003cbr\u003ePart Two: A Pastoral Role for Music: Creating Community\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Sacred Love: The (Eco)Theology of Sting\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Music, Religion, and Peacebuilding: The Pontanima Choir of Sarajevo\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Breaking Stereotypes and Building Bridges: Nihilism, Lament, And Theodicy Within The Extreme Metal Music Culture\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: A Pastoral Role For Music: Sacramental and Salvific Powers\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: A Priestly Role for Music: Reconciliation and Restoration\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: Random Access Liturgies: Daft Punk as Robotic Priests Restoring Humanity\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: Recalling the Original Harmony of Paradise: The Nexus of Music, Ethics, and Spirituality in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: The Nightingale of Christ’s Redemption Song: Mechthild of Hackeborn’s Musical Apostolate\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: Music as Theology: Singing Prophetic Truth, Sounding the Reign of God\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen: A Priestly Role for Music: Concluding Reflection","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040724975959,"sku":"9781498538688","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498538688.jpg?v=1750947634","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/music-theology-and-justice-9781498538688","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}