The Extravagance of Music
A major work on music and religious experience brings new insights to the field of theology and the arts.
Professor David Brown and Dr Gavin Hopps examine the overlooked theological dimensions of music in a new publication entitled The Extravagance of Music.
The volume is available in hardback and e-book formats, with a free online preview on the publisher’s website.
Excerpt from the publisher’s description:
“This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, The Extravagance of Music sets out a more expansive and optimistic vision, which suggests that there is an ‘excess’ or ‘extravagance’ in both music and the divine that can open up revelatory and transformative possibilities.”
Publication details
David Brown and Gavin Hopps, The Extravagance of Music, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Foreword by Frank Burch Brown (pp.v-xvii).
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91817-4
e-Book ISBN: 91818-1