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6 - Digital Devotion: Musical Multimedia in Online Ritual and Religious Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

By
Monique M. Ingalls
Edited by
Nicholas Cook ,
Monique M. Ingalls  and
David Trippett
Nicholas Cook
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Monique M. Ingalls
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Texas
David Trippett
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

This chapter examines the role of music and sacred sound in three types of digital devotional rituals, interpreting these through the lenses of scholarship in media, music and religious studies. In examining these digital devotional practices, including virtual pilgrimages, digital music resources for offline use, and online devotional screen media, the chapter addresses several interrelated questions, including how and in what contexts music is used in online ritual; to what extent music connects online and offline religious practices; and how engaging in music within participatory digital technologies is changing how people experience and practice their religious faith. Addressing these questions through the lens of musical and audio-visual experience will help scholars understand and assess the implications of music within the digital apparatus on religious authority, religious experience and the formation of religious communities.

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digital religionmusic and religionmusic and ritualmedia and religionreligious ritualonline ritualMuslim devotional practiceChristian devotional practiceJewish devotional practice
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The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture , pp. 150 - 167
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Berger, Teresa. 2017. @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
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Cheong, Pauline Hope, Fischer-Nielsen, Peter, Gelfgren, Stefan and Ess, Charles, eds. 2012. Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures. New York: Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Engelke, Matthew. 2010. ‘Religion and The Media Turn: A Review Essay’. American Ethnologist 37 (2): 371–9.Google Scholar
Meyer, Birgit, ed. 2009. Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wagner, Rachel. 2012. Godwired: Religion, Ritual, and Virtual Reality. London: Routledge.Google Scholar

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