Document Type

Response or Comment

Publication Date

11-2021

Publication Source

Religions

Abstract

This article serves to introduce a special issue of Religions, titled Music in World Religions. A 2015 article by religion scholar Isabel Laack claimed that the study of music and religion has been neglected by Laack’s peers in the field of religions. Responding to Laack, I argue that scholars of music have been making important contributions to the study of music and religion and, indeed, have been addressing the twelve specific topics she highlights for decades. After summarizing academic works which respond to Laack’s twelve categories of inquiry, I introduce each of the articles in this special issue, showing that each of these also address the gap in the literature that Laack perceived. Ultimately, I argue that transdisciplinarity in the study of music and religion is alive and well, and is exemplified both by historic writings and by those contained in Music in World Religions.

ISBN/ISSN

2077-1444

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

Copyright: © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).

View article on journal webiste: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12121044

Publisher

MDPI

Volume

12

Issue

12

Keywords

music, religion, transdisciplinarity, review article, Islam, Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Sikh, Judaism, Buddhism

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