Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music, second edition, edited by Christopher Partridge and Marcus Moberg, 2023

The second, expanded edition of the Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music provides the only existing comprehensive scientific overview on the relationship between religion and popular music on an international scale. The volume comprises a total of 37 chapters, all written by internationally recognized experts in their respective fields from religious studies, theological, sociological, ethnological, cultural studies, and musicological perspectives. The volume presents several different theoretical perspectives on the relationship between religion and popular music and popular music studies more generally, the relationship and place of popular music in all major religious traditions, and the role and visibility of religion in several internationally spread popular music genres and their associated subcultures. The volume is the result of a long-established and continued collaboration between scholars of religion at Åbo Akademi University and Lancaster University in the UK.  All chapters for the second edition have been updated to also capture the very latest developments in their respective areas. In addition, the volume contains new chapters on musicological perspectives on the relationship between religion and popular music, religion, popular music and performance, religious syncretism, atheism and popular music, as well as religion and industrial music and K-pop.

Marcus Moberg