Description
- Despite utilizing a format with its roots in the Roman Catholic liturgy, many of these politicized concert masses also reflect the increasing religious diversification of Western societies.
- By introducing non-Catholic and often non-Christian beliefs into masses that also remain respectful of Christian tradition, composers in the later twentieth- century have employed the genre to promote a conciliatory way of being that promotes the value of heterogeneity and reinforces the need to protect the diversity of musics, species and spiritualities that enrich life.
- In combining the political with the religious, the case studies presented pose challenges for both supporters and detractors of the secularization paradigm.
- Overarchingly, they demonstrate that any binary division that separates life into either the religious or the secular and promotes one over the other denies the complexity of lived experience and constitutes a diminution of what it is to be human.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032271514
Author Stephanie Rocke
Format Paperback
Page Count 242
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
