Enchanting Powers: Music in the World’s Religions

The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball ga$ the “drum history” of the Dagbamba, the chanting of the Qur’an–these$ some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays by eminent musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and religionists as they consider the intersection and interconnection of musics and religions$ different world cultures. Judith Becker, Philip V. Bohlman, John M. Chernoff, Michael W. Harris, Jonathan Hill, Moshe Idel, Victoria Lindsay Levine$ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Rulan Chao Pian, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Kay Kaufman Shelemay. This volume, in the Religions of the World series, is distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Center for the Study of Worl$ Religions.