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Exaltation

Ecstatic Experience in Pentecostalism and Popular Music

  • Paperback
  • 231 pages
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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Based on two richly described case studies - a Pentecostal worship service and popular music festival - this book draws on sociology, theology and religious studies in order to understand the significance of ecstatic experience in these contexts. Interviews with performers in both settings, together with detailed first person accounts of worship services and live performances, combine to create a picture of the role of music, performance and space in catalysing ecstasy. Drawing on the work of thinkers as diverse as Michel Foucault, Emile Durkheim, Victor Turner and Friedrich Schleiermacher, this book demonstrates that religious and non-religious disciplines, paradigms and understandings can work in a complementary fashion to help us understand the significance of phenomena such as music and ecstatic experience. Ultimately, the argument put forward in the book is that ecstatic experience takes place in both religious and secular settings and is best understood by both theistic and non-theistic approaches, working together. The ecstatic experience common to both contexts is theorised as 'proto-religious phenomena' - the kernel from which religion may develop.
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  • Author

    Mark Jennings

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

  • Published

    February 2014

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    231

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9783034313483

  • ISBN-10

    3034313489

  • Eden Code

    4275868

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