Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours
Catalog page 635
Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Examines the complex intersection of sound, religion, religious experience, and culture. Explores how sacred music and varieties of sound-induced or sound- enhanced religious experience enables groups of people to construct religious meaning and understand their world. Focuses on musical forms of practices and embodied experiences of the sacred.