Overview

As issues of climate and ecology become ever more important, Christian communities are increasingly looking for appropriate ways to respond to the current crisis in their worship and liturgy. In this book, Mark Porter draws on more than 40 interviews with activists, song-writers, Christian leaders, and musicians to explore what it means to develop new Christian musical practices for a time of ecological crisis. Through these different conversations, the book enters into fundamental questions regarding our relationships with the world around us, the relationship between spirituality and ecology, and the different ways in which we can engage with the climate crisis which we are facing.

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""This is a much-needed book. Musical Christian responses to the climate emergency are immensely varied and astonishingly creative, including musicking in well known formats and innovations in sonic worlds that bring the human and other-than-human sound worlds together. The debates are carefully and clearly set out with remarkable respect for diverse theological and musical positions. Themes of coalition, pragmatism, creativity, boundary transcendence, community and relationship are drawn from musical, theological, spiritual, liturgical and interview data. Paradoxes and uncertainties are honestly addressed. This is an excellent and inspirational book that is an essential read for anyone concerned with Christian ecology."" -- June Boyce-Tilman “This well-conceived and clearly-written series of interview-based case studies lifts the curtain on an important but under-studied aspect of music for the environment: the explosion of musical creativity and experimentation among progressive Christians and other faith-based groups in response to the existential crisis of climate change. A thoughtful and pioneering contribution to applied ecomusicology, this stimulating book offers a great deal to scholars, musicians, and environmental activists.” -- Jeff Titon ""[Mark Porter] is right that music has a way of drawing attention to itself and making ideas visible. I hope this book will not only awaken the different groups he interviews to the activities of each other, but inspire others to express their concerns about the environmental crisis in creative ways that cause change"" -- Chris Polhill * Franciscan Magazine *

Author Information

Mark Porter is a researcher, teacher, and musician with a long-standing interesting in Christian musical practices. He currently works at the University of Erfurt in Germany.

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