Congregational Music-Making and Community in a Mediated Age

Introduction: Worship Music as Media Form and Mediated Practice: Theorizing the Intersections of Media, Music and Lived Religion

Part 1. Technology, Place and Practice

1. Music as a Mediated Object, Music as a Medium: Towards a Media Ecological View of Congregational Music

2. Music, Ritual and Media in Charismatic Religious Experience in Ghana

3. Panoptic or Pastoral Gaze? The Worship Leader in the New Media Environment

4. Who Gets to Sing in the Kingdom?

Part 2. Community Creation

5. 'This is a Chance to Come Together': Subcultural Resistance and Community at Cornerstone Festival

6. 'Through Every Land, By Every Tongue': Diasporic and National Consciousness Among a Transnational Community of Sacred Harp Singers

7. YouTube: The New Mediator of Christian Community

8. Belonging, Integration and Tradition: Mediating Romani Identity Through Pentecostal Praise & Worship Music

Part 3. Embodied Sonic Theologies

9. On the Inherent Contradiction in Worship Music

10. 'Yet to Come' or 'Still to Be Done'?: Evangelical Worship and the Power of 'Prophetic' Songs

11. Happiness and Music: Salvific Practice in a Feelgood Age

12. The Dance + Pray Worship Experience in Finland: Negotiating the Transcendent and Transgressive in Search of Alternative Sensational Forms and Affective Space

Afterword: Of Animatrons and Eschatology: Congregational Music, Mediation and World-Making