Vaughan S Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 4618858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vaughan S Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vaughan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5972-7365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shop window, flagship, common ground
A simple question: What is the body of Christ? Is it: (a) a group of people, (b) a piece of bread, (c) a building, (d) an institution, (e) all of these? Of course, the body is a longstanding theolo
God in Sound and Silence
The place of music in society continues to be fluid, not only with enormous changes in technology and marketing but also regarding its status in schools, churches, and elsewhere. The position of po
The Grace of God and the Grace of Man
Singing the Rite to Belong
Let me start with full disclosure: I am not a singer or a Roman Catholic, nor do I have any Irish ancestry—all of which are integral to Helen Phelan’s identity and to this book. Yet I found her wor
Exercise to Support Indigenous Pregnant Women to Stop Smoking
Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion
A recurring analogy in Jason Bivins’s insightful book on the relationship between religion in the US and jazz is the griot/griotte—travelling poets, musicians, and storytellers, who maintain a trad
On listening to “The Scarlet Tide” (by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello) from Cold Mountain
This article examines how the emerging concept of affective space can be applied to movie soundtracks, with particular reference to “The Scarlet Tide” written by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello for the film Cold Mountain (dir. Anthony Minghella 2003) and the implications this has for the place of religion in film culture. The article explores how affective space works with the experience of individual listeners and the wider social context. Bot…
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(3), pp. 452–453
Listening as Religious Practice (Part Two)
This article analyses qualitative data from responses to open questions addressed by 231 music users in a 2009–2010 survey. By coding and quantifying the data provided, the analysis enables the construction of four ‘acoustic axes’ (uplift–relax, inspiration–memory, energy–calm, joy/happiness–sad/sadness) which make direct use of respondent-initiated terminology and enable a means of mapping the activity which occurs for listeners in the affective…
Listening as Religious Practice (Part One)
This article explores and reflects upon the role that music consumption may be playing in the flexible field of cultural expression, identity formation, and meaning-making activity in the West, as overt commitment to organised religion continues to decline and prove fragile. Using quantitative data from a 2009–2010 study of 231 music users, the authors locate and analyse the respondents’ declarations about their listening practices in relation to…
Religion and Hip Hop
In a BBC TV documentary entitled How Does Music Make Us Feel?, broadcast in November 2012, American opera singer Jessye Norman observed: “My ancestors sung their way through slavery. They did not s
Anglicanism
Within our rapidly changing culture, is there any point to the Anglican Church? In a world that is variously described as post-Christian, post-secular, and post-atheist, there are times when Anglic
Once Out of Nature
Andrea Nightingale, 2011 Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press xiv + 244 pp., £25.00, US$39.00 (hb) ISBN 978–0–226–58575–8 Linda Woodhead has described current developments in religious
Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
Pop Cult
Soundtracks of Acrobatic Selves
This article addresses the question of how responses to the arts and popular culture, as mediated through on-line fan activity, may contribute to the development of religious/spiritual exploration in contemporary Western societies. It offers a critical reading of 40 short essays posted by fans of the rock band U2 on a fan site from the perspective of how respondents expose their personal, critical reflections on their developing selves. The funct…
Water as an Implicit Metaphor for Organizational Change within the Church
Too Much is not Enough
The film director Paul Verhoeven has described his first box office success, RoboCop (1987) as a “Christian fairytale”. This paper explores some possible Christian themes in his next three films Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), and Showgirls (1995). I argue that rather than merely presenting examples of the femme fatale, these movies explore a number of social boundaries and narratives which have parallels in Christianity—particularly …
Flood Management
In February 1990 severe storms hit most of Britain, and in Towyn, a seaside resort in North Wales – the effects were dramatic. The force of the sea caused a breach in the sea defences which resulted in large‐scale flooding affecting in the region of 2,400 properties and causing in the biggest evacuation to take place in Britain since the war. The disaster had not been anticipated by the local authority and no one had experience of dealing with th…
Soundtracks of Acrobatic Selves
This article addresses the question of how responses to the arts and popular culture, as mediated through on-line fan activity, may contribute to the development of religious/spiritual exploration in contemporary Western societies. It offers a critical reading of 40 short essays posted by fans of the rock band U2 on a fan site from the perspective of how respondents expose their personal, critical reflections on their developing selves. The funct…
Singing the Rite to Belong
Let me start with full disclosure: I am not a singer or a Roman Catholic, nor do I have any Irish ancestry—all of which are integral to Helen Phelan’s identity and to this book. Yet I found her wor
Listening as Religious Practice (Part Two)
This article analyses qualitative data from responses to open questions addressed by 231 music users in a 2009–2010 survey. By coding and quantifying the data provided, the analysis enables the construction of four ‘acoustic axes’ (uplift–relax, inspiration–memory, energy–calm, joy/happiness–sad/sadness) which make direct use of respondent-initiated terminology and enable a means of mapping the activity which occurs for listeners in the affective…
Pop Cult
Flood Management
In February 1990 severe storms hit most of Britain, and in Towyn, a seaside resort in North Wales – the effects were dramatic. The force of the sea caused a breach in the sea defences which resulted in large‐scale flooding affecting in the region of 2,400 properties and causing in the biggest evacuation to take place in Britain since the war. The disaster had not been anticipated by the local authority and no one had experience of dealing with th…
Too Much is not Enough
The film director Paul Verhoeven has described his first box office success, RoboCop (1987) as a “Christian fairytale”. This paper explores some possible Christian themes in his next three films Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), and Showgirls (1995). I argue that rather than merely presenting examples of the femme fatale, these movies explore a number of social boundaries and narratives which have parallels in Christianity—particularly …
Water as an Implicit Metaphor for Organizational Change within the Church
Pop Cult
Soundtracks of Acrobatic Selves
This article addresses the question of how responses to the arts and popular culture, as mediated through on-line fan activity, may contribute to the development of religious/spiritual exploration in contemporary Western societies. It offers a critical reading of 40 short essays posted by fans of the rock band U2 on a fan site from the perspective of how respondents expose their personal, critical reflections on their developing selves. The funct…
Once Out of Nature
Andrea Nightingale, 2011 Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press xiv + 244 pp., £25.00, US$39.00 (hb) ISBN 978–0–226–58575–8 Linda Woodhead has described current developments in religious
Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture
Listening as Religious Practice (Part One)
This article explores and reflects upon the role that music consumption may be playing in the flexible field of cultural expression, identity formation, and meaning-making activity in the West, as overt commitment to organised religion continues to decline and prove fragile. Using quantitative data from a 2009–2010 study of 231 music users, the authors locate and analyse the respondents’ declarations about their listening practices in relation to…
Religion and Hip Hop
In a BBC TV documentary entitled How Does Music Make Us Feel?, broadcast in November 2012, American opera singer Jessye Norman observed: “My ancestors sung their way through slavery. They did not s
Anglicanism
Within our rapidly changing culture, is there any point to the Anglican Church? In a world that is variously described as post-Christian, post-secular, and post-atheist, there are times when Anglic
Listening as Religious Practice (Part Two)
This article analyses qualitative data from responses to open questions addressed by 231 music users in a 2009–2010 survey. By coding and quantifying the data provided, the analysis enables the construction of four ‘acoustic axes’ (uplift–relax, inspiration–memory, energy–calm, joy/happiness–sad/sadness) which make direct use of respondent-initiated terminology and enable a means of mapping the activity which occurs for listeners in the affective…
On listening to “The Scarlet Tide” (by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello) from Cold Mountain
This article examines how the emerging concept of affective space can be applied to movie soundtracks, with particular reference to “The Scarlet Tide” written by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello for the film Cold Mountain (dir. Anthony Minghella 2003) and the implications this has for the place of religion in film culture. The article explores how affective space works with the experience of individual listeners and the wider social context. Bot…
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(3), pp. 452–453
Exercise to Support Indigenous Pregnant Women to Stop Smoking
Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion
A recurring analogy in Jason Bivins’s insightful book on the relationship between religion in the US and jazz is the griot/griotte—travelling poets, musicians, and storytellers, who maintain a trad
The Grace of God and the Grace of Man
Singing the Rite to Belong
Let me start with full disclosure: I am not a singer or a Roman Catholic, nor do I have any Irish ancestry—all of which are integral to Helen Phelan’s identity and to this book. Yet I found her wor
God in Sound and Silence
The place of music in society continues to be fluid, not only with enormous changes in technology and marketing but also regarding its status in schools, churches, and elsewhere. The position of po
Shop window, flagship, common ground
A simple question: What is the body of Christ? Is it: (a) a group of people, (b) a piece of bread, (c) a building, (d) an institution, (e) all of these? Of course, the body is a longstanding theolo
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