Music in Christian services as a means to induce religious feelings

Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie

doi:10.11647/obp.0403.13

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Music in Christian services as a means to induce religious feelings

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Wald-Fuhrmann, Melanie
Department of Music, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, External Organizations;

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Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2024). Music in Christian services as a means to induce religious feelings. In G. Corbett, & S. Moerman (Eds.), Music and spirituality: Theological approaches, empirical methods, and Christian worship (pp. 273-284). Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. doi:10.11647/obp.0403.13.

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This chapter explores the relationship between musical practices and spiritual experiences in the context of Christian worship. It combines historical, theoretical, and liturgical perspectives with findings from empirical studies of singing in current Roman Catholic worship. After introducing a taxonomy of psychological effects of music in the liturgy according to the emic perspective of the Church, existing empirical studies are reviewed and results of a quantitative study on singing experiences in Roman Catholic mass are presented. The chapter concludes with an outline of a research program dedicated to empirically study the spiritual effects of musical practices in Christian worship.