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Why I Keep Coming Back, or: Hooked

Posted on January 24, 2014January 23, 2014 by Elise Alexander

This past semester, I completed an ethnographic project on a Sacred Harp singing group in the Boston area, motivated by one central question: what is it about this old-timey style of music with its ar... Read More

Shabbat Shira and the Power of a Nigun

Posted on January 28, 2013January 30, 2013 by Lauren Tuchman

In addition to being Tu Bishvat—The New Year for the Trees, a minor holiday which has been increasing in significance due to its environmental and Kabbalistic themes, this past Shabbat happened also... Read More

Theology of the Body, Episode 2: The Gendering of Voices in a Mormon Sunday Choir

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Alasdair Ekpenyong

Like the master-signifier of reality, the hanging portrait of a prophet hovered in the air of a vacated instruction room, smiling with relief over a group of the elect youth of God’s Zion who ha... Read More

Learning to Give Thanks – Ritual for Humanists

Posted on November 25, 2010November 25, 2010 by James Croft

I know how to celebrate Christmas. The tree, the carols, the mulled wine, the mistletoe: all this makes sense to me. Although I am not a Christian, I know the Christmas story and its significance in t... Read More