TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiner,Isaac
TI  - Religion out loud: religious sound, public space, and American pluralism 
T2  - North American religions
SN  - 9780814708071 (alk. paper)
AV  - BL 2525 .W414 2014 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - NYU Press
KW  - Religion
KW  - Noise
KW  - Sound
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Ger�ausch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Klang
KW  - Religions�asthetik
KW  - United States
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; pt. 1; The sounds of power --; From sacred noise to public nuisance --; Church bells in the industrial city --; pt. 2; The sounds of dissent --; A new regulatory regime --; Sound car religion and the right to be left alone --; pt. 3; The sounds of difference --; A new constitutional world and the illusory ideal of neutrality --; Calling Muslims--and Christians--to prayer --; Conclusion
N2  - "Throughout U.S. history, complaints about religion as noise have proven useful both for restraining religious dissent and for circumscribing religion's boundaries more generally. At the same time, religious individuals and groups rarely have kept quiet. They have insisted on their right to practice religion out loud, implicitly advancing alternative understandings of religion and its place in the modern world. In Religion Out Loud, Isaac Weiner takes such sonic disputes seriously. Weaving the story of religious "noise" through multiple historical eras and diverse religious communities, he convincingly demonstrates that religious pluralism has never been solely a matter of competing values, truth claims, or moral doctrines, but of different styles of public practice, of fundamentally different ways of using body and space--and that these differences ultimately have expressed very different conceptions of religion itself. Weiner's innovative work encourages scholars to pay much greater attention to the publicly contested sensory cultures of American religious life." -- Publisher's description
ER  -