Marsh, Clive.

Personal Jesus : how popular music shapes our souls / Clive Marsh & Vaughan S. Roberts. - Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2012. - xv, 234 p. ; 23 cm. - Engaging culture . - Engaging culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-224) and indexes.

Music and religion -- Music in context: contemporary discussion about religion and popular culture -- Explorations in affective space: the Magisteria-Ibiza spectrum -- Acknowledging a theological interest: popular music from sin to sacramentality -- Living by pop music -- Pop music in the marketplace -- Pop music and the body -- Tingle factor: popular music and transcendence today -- Pop music, ritual, and worship -- What's on your Ipod? classics, canons, and the question of what matters -- Pop music and theology -- Discipline of listening: how (and why) what we're doing with music matters ultimately -- Three steps to heaven on negotiating meaning between popular music and Christian theology -- Embodied social rituals: revisiting theology through popular music -- Programmatic postscript: practical consequences for church, academy, and daily living.

9780801039096 (pbk.) 0801039096 (pbk.)

40021710745

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Popular music--Religious aspects.
Popular music--Social aspects.

ML 3921.8 .P67 / M27 2012