Christian Congregational Music

Landau, Carolyn; Ingalls, Monique M.; Wagner, Thomas

doi:10.4324/9781315571850

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“…Qualitative studies on singing in liturgical services and religious singing events have so far been concerned primarily with various Protestant denominations (Slough, 1996;Davis, 1997;Kropf and Nafziger, 2001;Adnams, 2008Adnams, , 2013Kerner, 2008;Kinney, 2010;Kaiser, 2017). There appear to be only two studies with a Roman Catholic focus (McGann, 1996;Smith, 2010).…”

Section: Describing Religious Singing Experiences: Qualitative Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on field research in a Canadian evangelical church, Adnams (2008Adnams ( , 2013 has provided a much more comprehensive typology differentiating between two dichotomous categories: "just singing" and "really worshipping." To the "just singing" category belong sub-categories such as "un-minded singing, " "meaningless words, " and "dispassionate singing" (Adnams, 2013, pp.…”

Section: Describing Religious Singing Experiences: Qualitative Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…190-197). Here, according to Adnams (2013), "what is sung is what is felt to be real and expressed authentically in and as worship" (p. 197).…”

Section: Describing Religious Singing Experiences: Qualitative Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“He Who Sings, Prays Twice”? Singing in Roman Catholic Mass Leads to Spiritual and Social Experiences That Are Predicted by Religious and Musical Attitudes

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Singing is an essential element in every religion. In the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, theologians expect congregational singing to have several clear-cut effects which can be translated into psychological hypotheses. This study is the first to approach these quantitatively. N = 1603 Catholics from German-speaking countries answered an exhaustive questionnaire that asked whether and to what degree these putative effects were actually experienced by churchgoers. We found that people do, to a large degree, associate feelings of community and spiritual experiences with congregational singing. We also identified relevant intraindividual factors that contribute to the frequency of these experiences, most importantly, religious and musical attitudes. These results are discussed in the light of psychological literature on the effects of group singing on social bonding and wellbeing, but also in the context of theological, ethnomusicological, and sociological research on singing, songs, and spiritual and social experiences.

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Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements

Walter,

Altorfer

2023

Religion, Brain & Behavior

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The psychological role of music and attentional control for religious experiences in worship

Walter

Altorfer

2022

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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This study investigated the psychological dynamics during worship experiences under the influence of different music conditions. 60 believers were recruited to participate in experiments where they were asked to engage in worship and to connect with God while continuously ranking how strongly they sensed the presence of the divine. After each condition, they were asked to rate how well they were able to focus on God during the worship procedure. Based on a previously published feedback loop model that portrays global psychological mechanisms in worship, we deduced two hypotheses: (i) the ability to focus on God is positively associated with how strong the subjective religious experience becomes; (ii) and the different musical conditions yield varying degrees in the intensity of the felt presence of God. Our statistical analyses on the current sample demonstrate that both alternative hypotheses can be accepted. For the latter thesis, two further assumptions were at play: (a) we speculated that religious worship songs were associated with stronger divine experiences than with secular ones; and (b) it was assumed that if they could worship to their own selection of songs, the experience would be more powerful than with the ones that were provided by the research team. Whereas upon our investigation the former assumption can be deemed correct, the latter shows a positive but insignificant association.

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Christian Congregational Music

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“He Who Sings, Prays Twice”? Singing in Roman Catholic Mass Leads to Spiritual and Social Experiences That Are Predicted by Religious and Musical Attitudes

“He Who Sings, Prays Twice”? Singing in Roman Catholic Mass Leads to Spiritual and Social Experiences That Are Predicted by Religious and Musical Attitudes

Autonomous neural network activation during religious worship experiences using heart rate variability measurements

The psychological role of music and attentional control for religious experiences in worship

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