This review addresses general anthropological understandings of practice and a technical
semiotic approach to pragmatics through the concept of qualia. Qualia are pragmatic signals …

The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and
nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that …

Scholars concerned with music and sound have long commented on the atmosphere, the all-
encompassing mood, that tangibly manifests qua music and sounds. The nineteenth-century …

Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine reveals how and why religion
has become a pivotal political force in a society struggling to overcome the legacy of its …

This review represents a dialogic experiment developing the comparative analytical
category of religious orthodoxies. To explore the category, we profile scholarship on Jewish …

Urban space is a familiar place of religious-secular struggles in postsocialist world today,
foremost due to the deprivatization of religion followed by attempts of religious organizations …

Musical activity is one of the most ubiquitous and highly valued forms of social interaction in
North America (to say nothing of world over), being engaged from sporting events to political …

During the Cold War, state-sponsored musical performances were central to the diplomatic
agendas of the United States and the Soviet Union. But states on the periphery of the conflict …

When religious institutions engage the secular emotively and publicly, they can foster an
affective atmosphere of religiosity, which potentially has motivational power, even for non …

Congregational Music, Conflict and Community is the first study of the music of the
contemporary'worship wars'–conflicts over church music that continue to animate and divide …