Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common assumptions of secularity in contemporary schooling in many parts of the world. This book considers the ways in which the forces of religion and belief construct and complicate the values and practices of music education--including teacher education, curriculum texts, and teaching repertoires. The contributors to this volume embrace a range of perspectives from a variety of disciplines, examining religious, agnostic, skeptical, and atheistic points of view. Music, Education, and Religion is a valuable resource for all music teachers and scholars in related fields, interrogating the sociocultural and epistemological underpinnings of music repertoires and global educational practices.

Introduction / Alexis Anja Kallio, Heidi Westerlund, and Philip Alperson
Part I: Tensions and Negotiations
1. On the Role of Religion in Music Education / Estelle Jorgensen
2. Selective Affinities: Concordance and Discordance at the Intersection of Musical, Educational, and Religious Practices / Philip Alperson
3. The Performativity of Performance: Agency at the Intersection of Music and Religion in School / Heidi Westerlund, Alexis Anja Kallio and Heidi Partti

Part II: Identity and Community
4. Shaping Identities in and through Religious Music Engagement: A Case Study of an Australian Catholic Girls' School / Janelle Colville Fletcher and Margaret S. Barrett
5. Religion and the Transmission of Thai Musical Heritage, in Thailand and the United States of America / Pamela Moro
6. The Believing-Belonging Paradigm: Music, Education, and Religion in Contemporary Serbia / Ivana Percoviç and Biljana Mandiç
7. Religious Repertoire in General Music Education: Spiritual Indoctrination or Cultural Dialogue? / Lauri Väkevä
Part III: Navigating New Worlds
8. Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans: Spiritual and Existential Experience and Music Education / Øivind Varkøy
9. The Sacred Sphere: Its Equipment, Beauty, Functions, and Transformations under Secular Conditions / Maria B. Spychiger
10. Music Education as Sacred Practice: A Philosophical Exploration / Frank Heuser
11. Advocatus Diaboli: Revisiting the Devil's Role in Music and Music Education / Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
Part IV: Emancipation, Regulation, and the Social Order
12. The Humanist Defense of Music Education in Civil and Religious Life: The Praise of Musicke (1586) and Apologia Musices (1588) / Hyun-Ah Kim
13. The Curious Case of "Good Morning Iran": Music and Broadcast Regulation in the Islamic Republic / Erum Naqvi
14. When Hell Freezes Over-Black Metal: Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism and/or Egoistic Protectionism? / Ketil Thorgersen and Thomas von Wachenfeldt
Part V: Agency and Social Change
15. Radical Musical Inclusion in Higher Education: The Creation of Foundation Music at the University of Winchester / June Boyce-Tillman
16. Religious Identities Intersecting Higher Music Education: An Israeli Teacher Educator as a Boundary Worker in an All-Female Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Context / Laura Miettinen
17. Religion and Music in an Education for Social Change / Iris M. Yob
18. Dancing on the Limits: An Interreligious Dialogue Exploring the Lived Experience of Two Religiously Observant Music Educators in Israel / Belal Badarne and Amira Ehrlich
Music, Education, and Religion: An Invitation / Alexis Anja Kallio
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edited by Alexis Anja Kallio, Philip Alperson, Heidi Westerlund