Negotiating the Sounds of Born-Again Christianity
Aesthetic Provocations in Western Ethiopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4317670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yotam Gidron (0000-0002-1408-7085, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 490-516 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Material Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2200 • E-ISSN: 1751-8342 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17432200.2021.1959281 |
| OpenAlex | W3196829972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
This paper discusses the role of hymns and musical practices in the articulation of Christian subjectivities among Nuer communities in western Ethiopia. It examines how the members of two fundamentalist born-again groups responded to the Pentecostalization of the local Christian soundscape over the past two decades, focusing on the distinct approaches they adopted for the production and performance of hymns and the authorization of Christian music. Born-again musical practices, it is argued, take shape through a constant process of public argumentation, fuelled by a ceaseless quest for divine authenticity. Believers from different churches are therefore engaged not in destructive conflicts over the domination of public spaces, as some accounts of tensions over religious sound from elsewhere in Africa may suggest, but in constant provocations and debates that are both of a productive nature and inherent to the endless political project of born-again subjectivation
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Argumentation theory · Art · Articulation (sociology · Christianity · Epistemology · Literature · Musical · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sound (geography · Soundscape · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious studies
Pentecostalism, ‘Post- secularism,’ and the Politics of Affect
Hinges and Fringes
“Satan Is an Imitator”
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Introduction
Nuer Dilemmas
The Modernity Bluff
Critical Christianity
Israel in Africa
The Human Condition
Mediation and immediacy
Sensational Movies
Who Is a Jew (in Africa)? Definitional and Ethical Considerations in the Study of Sub-Saharan Jewry and Judaism
Contesting Silence
Television and the Gospel of Entertainment in Ghana
Holy Praiseco
Aesthetics of Persuasion
Accra's Sounds and Sacred Spaces
Of faith and visual alertness
Noise and Silence in Rwanda's Postgenocide Religious Soundscape
Altar Media's Living Word
Messianic Judaism as a Mode of Christian Authenticity. Exploring the Grammar of Authenticity through Ethnography of a Contested Identity
Sound
Political Spiritualities
Techniques of Inattention
Sonic Supremacy
There Is a Spirit in that Image
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |