The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. One important current found within heterogeneous musicalities is contemporary popular music, whether country, rock, funk, hip hop, and so on. […]
Anthropology of Religion
Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 2 (Fraser Macdonald)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Human No More: Human Transontology The profound affective movements that occur within religiously intensified music dislodge the coordinates of the body and […]
Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 1 (Fraser Macdonald)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. “Music is never tragic, music is joy. But there are times it necessarily gives us a taste for death; not so much happiness as dying happily, being […]
Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger Green)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The initial installment can be found here. Although we must constantly remember that the fetish is the product of European imagination, the taking-up of the concept by postcolonial thinking also informs important ways to think about race and religion. The “middle finger” of the fetish has […]
Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 1 (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. The concept of fetishism has a special place within the long history of genocide against the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In one way, pursuing the concept acts as a diversion from Indigenous peoples because it acts as a […]