Why Southern Gospel Music Matters

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Evangelical Culture ◽  
Conservative Christian

AbstractLong overlooked by scholars of culture and religion, southern (white) gospel music occupies a special place within evangelicalism. The dynamic interaction of lyrics, music, and religious experience in southern gospel music comprises a cultural discourse evangelicals use, not to diminish experience in this world as is commonly argued in southern gospel studies, but to understand better Protestant theological doctrines in, and to make useable meaning out of, the vicissitudes of conservative Christian life. This approach treats southern gospel as a network of interconnected rhetorics and signifying practices that serve a multitude of public and private needs among its performers and fans—needs that are not otherwise met in evangelical culture. Particularly, southern gospel music allows those who participate in it to explore a broader and deeper range of psychospiritual feelings and experiences. The study of southern gospel reveals the importance of private conflicts and tensions in defining the contours of conservative Protestant religious living, individually and collectively. For the millions of evangelicals today who turn regularly and eagerly to southern gospel, their identity as a covenanted elect emerges from within the struggle to manage and resolve spiritual disquietude through the experience of white gospel music.

scholarly journals Diakonos and prostatis: Women’s patronage in Early Christianity

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Osiek
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
House Churches ◽  
Patronage System

In spite of numerous studies on the patronage system in Mediterranean antiquity, little attention has been paid to either how the patronage of women was part of the system or how it differed. In fact, there is substantial evidence for women’s exercise of both public and private patronage to women and men in the Greco-Roman world, by both elites and sub-elites. This information must then be applied to early Christian texts to infer how women’s patronage functioned in early house churches and Christian life.

scholarly journals Rhetoric in the Service of the Gospel in “Inesperto nell'arte di parlare” (2 Cor 11,6) by A. M. Gieniusz, CR

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-212
Author(s):  
Marcin Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Christian Life

The article reviews the book by Andrzej M. Gieniusz, CR, “Inesperto nell'arte di parlare”? (2 Cor 11, 6). Retorica al servizio del Vangelo (Percorsi culturali 25; Roma: Urbaniana University Press 2018). The author begins by discussing the publication in detail, and then proceeds to the specific issues related to it. These include Rom 7:1-6 read as transitio, Rom 8:12 as the test case of orality and literacy in Paul, the category of “religious experience” in Paul, the apocalyptic background of Paul’s attitude toward work, and the role of 1 Cor 15:8 in constructing the apostle’s ethos. The main characteristic of the book by Prof. Gieniusz is a creative combination of rhetoric and theology, discussed in the last part of the article. The book shows how to do theology focused on the newness of the Christian life, the primacy of grace and the uniqueness of Christ’s way (solus Christus).

Then Sings My Soul

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
American Life ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
History Of

This ambitious book on southern gospel music reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than seeing the music as a single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, the book presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. The book explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual—and potentially subversive—meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus. The book traces an alternative history of southern gospel in the twentieth century, one that emphasizes the music's interaction with broader shifts in American life beyond the narrow confines of southern gospel's borders. The book's discussion includes the “gay–gospel paradox”—the experience of non-heterosexuals in gospel music—as emblematic of fundamentalism's conflict with the postmodern world.

scholarly journals The Importance of Religiousity and Resilience on Z-Generation and the Implication for School Counseling

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4081-4086
Author(s):  
Kusnarto Kurniawan, Eem Munawaroh, Binti Isrofin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
School Counseling ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Resilience Scale

The youngest generation needs to possess psychological resilience to deal with the Industry 5.0 challenge. Therefore, it is important to determine the contributing factors responsible for z-generation resilience. The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between religiousity and resilience on z-generation. Data were obtained from 455 college students of Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia. The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS), developed by Huber, was used to determine the five aspects of religiosity, namely intellectual dimensions, ideology, public and private practice, as well as a religious experience. Meanwhile, the Brief Resilience Scale developed by Smith, Dalen, Wiggins, Tooley, Christopher, and Bernard (2008) was used to measure resilience. The result showed that religiousness significantly correlated to the resilience of the z-generation.

scholarly journals The place and role of the Police in upbringing in sobriety and counteracting alcoholism

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 76-92
Author(s):  
Barbara Jaworska-Dębska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Illegal Trade ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Special Place ◽  
General Competence

The Police as a uniformed service, functioning throughout the country, is established in order to take care of security and public order. The Police occupy a special place among other public administration bodies operating in this field. This place of the Police undoubtedly follows the fact that it functions on the basis of a general competence regulation in the scope of ensuring security and public order. Alcohol and its abuse, illegal consumption or illegal trade are one of the most common factors generating situations leading to breach of safety and order in many areas of public and private life. Furthermore, is the fact that as a uniformed service with power, it has the ability to use police coercion.

Personal religion: a productive category for the study of ancient Greek religion?

2015 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Kindt
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Religion ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Additional Dimension

Abstract:This article investigates the scope and meaning of ancient Greek personal religion as an additional dimension - besides official (polis) religion - in which the ancient Greek religious experience articulates itself. I show how ‘personal religion’ is a rather broad and amorphous scholarly category for a number of religious beliefs and practices that, in reflecting individual engagement with the supernatural, do not fit into our conception of polis religion. At the same time, I argue that personal religion should not be seen simply as that which is not official Greek religion. Nor is personal religion simply ‘private’ religion, oikos religion or the religion of those who had no voice in the sphere of politics (metics, women). Rather, ‘personal religion’ combines aspects of public and private. It is a productive category of scholarly research insofar as it helps us to appreciate the whole spectrum of ways individuals in the ancient Greek city received and (if necessary) altered culturally given religious beliefs and practices. Indeed, the examples discussed in this paper reveal a very Greek conversation about the question of what should count as a religious sign and who was to determine its meaning.

Tagging: Deviant behavior or adolescent rites of passage?

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Hippolyte Brown ◽  
Lisa M Brunelle ◽  
Vikas Malhotra
Keyword(s):  
Growth Process ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Developmental Theories ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Illegal Action

Tagging is a category of graffiti defined as a stylized signature, monogram, word, or name marked on public and private physical spaces. It is an illegal action seen as a disfigurement to many communities, yet it remains a pre-occupation for adolescents worldwide. This theoretical article explores the hidden aspects of taggers and their subculture. We argue that tagging is a ritualistic act that is part of a psychological growth process suggestive of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner’s research on traditional rites of passage practices. We use the developmental theories of Winnicott and Erikson to investigate how these rites of passage experiences are integrated into the adolescent tagger’s psyche. Graffiti writing gives taggers the freedom to discover different aspects of the self; a dynamic interaction with unconscious processes that mirror traditional rites of passage rituals.

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