Topics

Note: I am permuting (slightly) the topic sequence presented in the course outline; please follow the topic list as presented below.

• 1. Resounding ritual

• 2. Reciting the sacred

• 3. Chanting devotions

• 4. Affect, trance, healing, and the self

• 5. The aesthetic and the sacred

• 6. Myth, cosmology, and sacred power

• 7. Religion in the music system