Songs beyond people

Annette Landau, Sandra Koch: Preliminary Remarks Gerhard Anselm: Music - Religion - Church. A Field of Conflict? David Kieger: Ritual and Ritualization in Religion and Culture Ivo Meyer: 'Your laws have become songs for me.' Biblical Texts and Music Heidy Zimmermann: 'Sing daily!' Rabbinical Authorities and the Music of the Synagogue Issam El-Mallah: Music in Islam Matthias Stöckli: Competing Religious and Musical Practices of the Maya Descendants of Guatemala Jürg Stenzl: Liturgical Music Between Development and Asceticism from the 12th to the 18th Century Therese Bruggisser-Lanker: Church Music Between Baroque Piety and Political Representation. The Music Culture of the 17th and 18th Centuries in the Abbey of Beromünster Dietrich Wiederkehr: Secular in Sacred Music - Sacred in Secular Music. The Church Between Fear of Contact and Desire for Contact Andreas Marti: Theology and Aesthetics of Church Music Klaus Röhring: New Music and Liturgy Dieter Schnebel: Holy, Holy, Holy - Terrible! Reflections on Sacred Music Thüring Bräm: Spirituality and the Contemporary Composer Dagmar Hoffmann-Axthelm: 'It may be that not all musicians believe in God, but all believe in Bach.' On Some Connections Between Music and Devotion Peter Niklas Wilson: 'The Ecstatic Tool of Heavenly Rapture.' Improvisation and Transcendental Experience Michele Calella: Music - Religion - Church: A Report from the Crisis.