Religion out loud : religious sound, public space, and American pluralism / Isaac Weiner.

Weiner, Isaac.
New York : New York University Press, [2014];©2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
From sacred noise to public nuisance — Church bells in the industrial city — A new regulatory regime — Sound car religion and the right to be left alone — A new constitutional world and the illusory ideal of neutrality — Calling Muslims–and Christians–to prayer.
Throughout U.S. history, complaints about religion as noise have proven useful both for restraining religious dissent and for circumscribing religion’s boundaries more generally. At the same time, religious individuals and groups rarely have kept quiet. They have insisted on their right to practice religion out loud, implicitly advancing alternative understandings of religion and its place in the modern world. In Religion Out Loud, Isaac Weiner takes such sonic disputes seriously. Weaving the story of religious noise through multiple historical eras and diverse religious communities, he convincingly demonstrates that religious pluralism has never been solely a matter of competing values, truth claims, or moral doctrines, but of different styles of public practice, of fundamentally different ways of using body and space–and that these differences ultimately have expressed very different conceptions of religion itself. Weiner’s innovative work encourages scholars to pay much greater attention to the publicly contested sensory cultures of American religious life. — Publisher’s description.

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