| Place of Publication | Cambridge, USA : |
| Publisher's Name | Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions |
| Date of Publication | 1997 |
| Extent | viii, 322p. |
| Other Details | examples, figures, footnotes, illustrations, references |
| Series Responsibility - Personal | Sullivan, Lawrence E (editor) |
| Series Statement Title | Religions of the World |
| Item Descriptor | The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball game, and the drum history of the Dagbamba, are some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays, which consider the intersection and interconnection of musics and religions in different world cultures |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include - Enchanting powers - an introduction/ Lawrence E Sullivan; Tantrism, Rasa, and Javanese Gamelan music/ Judith Becker; World musics and world religions - whose world?/ Philip V Bohlman; Music and historical consciousness among the Dagbamba of Ghana/ John Chernoff; Historicism and the quest for D/divine music/ Michael W Harris; 'Musicalizing' the other - shamanistic approaches to ethnic-class competition along the upper Rio Negro/ Jonathan D Hill; Conceptualizations of music in Jewish mysticism/ Moshe Idel; Music, myth, and medicine in the Choctaw Indian ballgame/ Victoria Lindsay Levine; Islam and music - the legal and the spiritual dimensions/ Seyyed Hussein Nasr; Music and the Confucian sacrificial ceremony/ Rulan Chao Pian; Sounding the word - music in the life of Islam/ Regula Burckhardt Qureshi; and Mythologies and realities in the study of Jewish music/ Kay Kaufman Shelemay
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| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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| Subject Entry | Music - Religious aspects |
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