Sonic spaces, spiritual bodies

The affective experience of the roots reggae soundsystem

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8963366
AutoresOrlando Woods (0000-0001-9218-1264, School of Social Sciences Singapore Management University Singapore Singapore, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen44
Número1
Páginas181-194
Fecha de publicación2018-09-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12270
OpenAlexW2890437634
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas55

This paper advances a new understanding of spirituality within the geographies of religion. It builds on the premise that spirituality is latent within every body and argues that it becomes manifest in response to an affective experience. Such experiences are often sensory in nature, rendering spiritual affect an embodied phenomenon that can be understood through the concept of an “embodied hierophany.” By exploring the affective experience of the roots reggae soundsystem, this paper shows how sonic spaces can enable processes of spiritual engagement. It draws on an analysis of four documentary films about soundsystem culture to show how situations of sonic dominance can bring about an embodied hierophany. In such situations, spirituality is experienced outside of the ascriptive framework of formal religious belief and is therefore a more self‐directed form of spiritual awakening

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Premise · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology