Personal Jesus : how popular music shapes our souls - Marsh, Clive; Roberts, Vaughan (Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, 2012)
Music and religion -- Music in context: contemporary discussion about religion and popular culture -- Explorations in affective space: the Magisteria-Ibiza spectrum -- Acknowledging a theological interest: popular music from sin to sacramentality -- Living by pop music -- Pop music in the marketplace -- Pop music and the body -- Tingle factor: popular music and transcendence today -- Pop music, ritual, and worship -- What's on your Ipod? classics, canons, and the question of what matters -- Pop music and theology -- Discipline of listening: how (and why) what we're doing with music matters ultimately -- Three steps to heaven on negotiating meaning between popular music and Christian theology -- Embodied social rituals: revisiting theology through popular music -- Programmatic postscript: practical consequences for church, academy, and daily living.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-224) and indexes.
Keywords: Popular music -- Religious aspects; Popular music -- Social aspects