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Sacred Music in Secular Society is a new and challenging work asking why Christian sacred music is now appealing afresh to a wide and varied audience, both religious and secular. Blending scholarship, theological reflection and interviews with some of the greatest musicians and spiritual leaders of our day, Arnold suggests that the intrinsically theological and spiritual nature of sacred music remains an immense attraction particularly in secular society. This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary spirituality, Christianity, music, worship, faith and society, whether believers
783 --- 783 Kerkmuziek. Religieuze muziek --- Kerkmuziek. Religieuze muziek --- Music --- Musique --- Religious aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Aspect religieux --- Aspect social --- Music and society --- Music in worship --- Religion and music --- Religious aspects --- Social aspects
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How do contemporary audiences engage with sacred music and what are its effects?
Music --- Faith. --- Religious belief --- Theological belief --- Belief and doubt --- Religion --- Salvation --- Theological virtues --- Trust in God --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Christian faith. --- Christian story. --- Church. --- Music and Faith. --- agnosticism. --- atheism. --- body. --- faith. --- mind. --- post-secular. --- religion. --- sacred music. --- social justice. --- soul. --- spirituality. --- transformative effect. --- transformative.
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This book explores examples of how the Christian story is still expressed in music and how it is received by those who experience that art form, whether in church or not. Through conversations with a variety of writers, artists, scientists, historians, atheists, church laity and clergy, the term post-secular emerges as an accurate description of the relationship between faith, religion, spirituality, agnosticism and atheism in the west today. In this context, faith does not just mean belief; as the book demonstrates, the temporal, linear, relational and communal process of experiencing faith is closely related to music. Music and Faith is centred on those who, by-and-large, are not professional musicians, philosophers or theologians, but who find that music and faith are bound up with each other and with their own lives. Very often, as the conversations reveal, the results of this 'binding' are transformative, whether it be in outpourings of artistic expression of another kind, or greater involvement with issues of social justice, or becoming ordained to serve within the Church. Even those who do not have a Christian faith find that sacred music has a transformative effect on the mind and the body and even, to use a word deliberately employed by Richard Dawkins, the 'soul'.
Faith. --- Faith. --- Music --- Music --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.
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This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the 'barbarian' kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and material evidence, and in particular the works of Cassiodorus and Ennodius, Jonathan J. Arnold argues that contemporary Italo-Romans viewed the Ostrogothic kingdom as the Western Roman Empire and its 'barbarian' king, Theoderic (r.489/93-526), as its emperor. Investigating conceptions of Romanness, Arnold explains how the Roman past, both immediate and distant, allowed Theoderic and his Goths to find acceptance in Italy as Romans, with roles essential to the Empire's perceived recovery. Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration demonstrates how Theoderic's careful attention to imperial traditions, good governance, and reconquest followed by the re-Romanization of lost imperial territories contributed to contemporary sentiments of imperial resurgence and a golden age. There was no need for Justinian to restore the Western Empire: Theoderic had already done so.
Ostrogoths --- Goths --- Restorations, Political --- Imperialism --- Restaurations (Politique) --- Impérialisme --- History --- Biography --- Kings and rulers --- Histoire --- Biographie --- Rois et souverains --- Theodoric, --- Italy --- Rome --- Italie --- History. --- Restauration. --- Ancient --- General. --- General --- bisacsh. --- Theoderich, --- Römisches Reich. --- Impérialisme --- Ethnology --- Germanic peoples --- Austro-Gothi --- Austro-Goths --- Austrogothi --- Austrogoths --- East Goths --- Eastern Goths --- Ostgoths --- Ostro-Gothi --- Ostro-Goths --- Ostrogothi --- Tetricus, --- Theodoric the Great, --- Theodericus, --- Teoderico, --- Theoderic, --- Teodorico, --- Teoderyk, --- Dietrich, --- Biography. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Political restorations
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A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy is a concise yet comprehensive cutting edge survey of the rise and fall of Italy’s first barbarian kingdom, the Ostrogothic state (ca. 489-554 CE). The volume’s 18 essays provide readers with probing syntheses of recent scholarship on key topics, from the Ostrogothic army and administration to religious diversity and ecclesiastical development, ethnicity, cultural achievements, urbanism, and the rural economy. Significantly, the volume also presents innovative studies of hitherto under-examined topics, including the Ostrogothic provinces beyond the Italian lands, gender and the Ostrogothic court, and Ostrogothic Italy’s environmental history. Featuring work by an international panel of scholars, the volume is designed for both new students and specialists in the field. Contributors are Jonathan Arnold, Shane Bjornlie, Samuel Cohen, Kate Cooper, Deborah Deliyannis, Cam Grey, Guy Halsall, Gerda Heydemann, Mark Johnson, Sean Lafferty, Natalia Lozovsky, Federico Marazzi, Christine Radtki, Kristina Sessa, Paolo Squatriti, Brian Swain, and Rita Lizzi Testa.
Ostrogoths --- History. --- Histoire --- Italy --- Italie --- History --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Manners and customs. --- Ostrogoths. --- To 1500. --- Italy. --- Austro-Gothi --- Austro-Goths --- Austrogothi --- Austrogoths --- East Goths --- Eastern Goths --- Ostgoths --- Ostro-Gothi --- Ostro-Goths --- Ostrogothi --- Goths
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