Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music

Contributor bios

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Mike Dines & Georgina Gregory


Chapter 1: Beatified Beats, Ritualized Rhymes: Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Music by Antti-Ville Kärjä


Section One: Personal Spirituality

Chapter 2: Leonard Cohen, the 'Sufi' Mystic by Jirí Mesíc

Chapter 3: Hank and Jesus: The Integral Roles of Religion and the History of Country Music in the Lives and Careers of Contemporary Country Artists by Gillian Kelly

Chapter 4: Above the Clouds: Discourses of the Spiritual and the Religious in the Lyrics of Paul Weller by Paul Spicer


Section Two: Christianity

Chapter 5: 'Embracing the Divine Chaos': Transcending the Sacred-Secular Divide in the 1990s British Rave Church Movement by Lucy Robinson & Chris Warne

Chapter 6: Pop Goes to Church: Taste, Class and 'Chav' Christianity by Georgina Gregory

Chapter 7: 'The Time Has Come, Exodus!': Congo Natty and the Jungle (r)evolution by Shara Rambarran

Chapter 8: 'Between Hipsters and God There is Sufjan Stevens': Sufjan Stevens & His Fans by Katelyn Medic


Section Three: Alternative Religions

Chapter 9: 'Save my soul from the poisons of this world': Straight Edge punk and Religious Re-Enchantment by Francis Stewart

Chapter 10: 'Message From Thee Temple': Magick, Occultism, Mysticism and Psychic TV
by Mike Dines and Matt Grimes

Chapter 11: I am god! The transference of musical fandom as religion to worshipping the self by Javier Campos Calvo-Sotel

Index