“From This One Song Alone, I Consider Him to be a Holy Man”: Ecstatic Religion, Musical Affect, and the Global Consumer
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion November 22, 2006 Katherine J. Hagedorn 38 citations
This essay considers why studying ecstatic religious parctices that include music as an integral component of trance and possession performance might be productive for sociologists, praticularly in the context of globalization. As spirit possession practices become connected with global markets, and as specific musical genres associated with trance are reinterpreted within secular frameworks...