TY - JOUR AU - KAHN-HARRIS, KEITH AU - MOBERG, MARCUS PY - 2012/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Religious Popular Music: Between the Instrumental, Transcendent and Transgressive JF - Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion JA - Temenos VL - 48 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.33356/temenos.6948 UR - https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/6948 SP - AB - <span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><p>The use of post-rock ‘n’ roll popular music genres by religious groups is accompanied by a notable ambiguity: Is religious popular music designed to be an instrumental tool for outreach/evangelism, or does it have an intrinsic value in summoning and exploring the transcendent? The article focuses on the previously rarely explored idea that the instrumental use of popular music in Christian and</p></span></span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;">Jewish settings is often much more important than its transcendent </span></span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;">qualities. The importance of the instrumental in Christian and Jewish </span></span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;">popular music reveals itself in subtle and not-so-subtle signifiers and </span></span><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; font-size: xx-small;">practices that point to an anxious desire to discipline music’s possible transgressive force.</span></span> ER -