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'Within the growing literature on religion, media and culture, comparatively little attention has been given to popular music, and even less to the ways in which religious groups use popular music to re-negotiate their traditions in the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of well-informed case studies, Religion and Popular Music in Europe helps to address this gap, and will be an important resource for tutors, students and researchers.' - Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology, University of Kent

"'Within the growing literature on religion, media and culture, comparatively little attention has been given to popular music, and even less to the ways in which religious groups use popular music to re-negotiate their traditions in the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of well-informed case studies, 'Religion and Popular Music in Europe' helps to address this gap, and will be an important resource for tutors, students and researchers.' - Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology, University of Kent; ""Religion and Popular Music in Europe' is an excellent example of scholarship at the interface of Religious Studies and Popular Music Studies. Its various perspectives provide thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which religions and alternative spiritualities use popular music in their engagement with the modern world. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and enthusiastically commend it as a significant contribution to the study of religion and popular music.' - Christopher Partridge, Professor of Religious Studies, Lancaster University"

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Thomas Bossius is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Andreas Hager is Docent in Sociology of Religion at Abo Akademi University, Turku. Keith Kahn-Harris is a Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, London, and author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (2006).

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