How do contemporary audiences engage with sacred music and what are
its effects? This book explores examples of how the Christian story
is still expressed in music and how it is received by those who
experience that art form, whether in church or not. Through
conversations with a variety of writers, artists, scientists,
historians, atheists, church laity and clergy, the term
post-secular emerges as an accurate description of the relationship
between faith, religion, spirituality, agnosticism and atheism in
the west today. In this context, faith does not just mean belief;
as the book demonstrates, the temporal, linear, relational and
communal process of experiencing faith is closely related to music.
Music and Faith is centred on those who, by-and-large, are not
professional musicians, philosophers or theologians, but who find
that music and faith are bound up with each other and with their
own lives. Very often, as the conversations reveal, the results of
this 'binding' are transformative, whether it be in outpourings of
artistic expression of another kind, or greater involvement with
issues of social justice, or becoming ordained to serve within the
Church. Even those who do not have a Christianfaith find that
sacred music has a transformative effect on the mind and the body
and even, to use a word deliberately employed by Richard Dawkins,
the 'soul'. JONATHAN ARNOLD is Dean of Divinity and Fellow of
MagdalenCollege, Oxford. Before being ordained, he was a
professional singer and made numerous recordings with The Sixteen,
Polyphony, the Gabrielli Consort and The Tallis Scholars, among
others. He has previously published Sacred Music in Secular Society
(2014), The Great Humanists: An Introduction (2011) and John Colet
of St. Paul's: Humanism and Reform in Pre-Reformation England
(2007).
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