Research Guides: Listening to the City: Communities of Faith: Get Started

Introduction

This course guide is designed to help students enrolled in Philip Seward's Listening to the City: Communities of Faith course during Spring 2021.

On this page you will find a list of recommended library resources for conducting research.

Additional pages are designed to help you focus your research for the two topics highlighted during the course:

The schism between Catholic and Protestant practices during the Protestant Reformation
Music in monotheism including exploring Expressionism in the Abrahamic faiths

There are also pages that provide an overview of highlighted musical genres associated with Chicago as well as other urban environments

World religions reference library by Michael O'Neal
ISBN: 9781414406121
Publication Date: 2007
"covering the history, traditions and world views of dominant and less prominent religions and their sects and offshoots ... [including] ... Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism. Less traditional and practiced religions are also included such as Shinto and Daoism."

Ritual soundings : women performers and world religions by Sarah Weiss
ISBN: 9780252051135
Publication Date: 2019
The work analyses women's performances at religious events in cultural settings spread across the world to demonstrate the pivotal roles women can play in localizing the practice of world religions, exploring moments in which performance allows women the agency to move, however momentarily, beyond culturally determined boundaries while revealing patterns that suggest unsuspected similarities in widely divergent religious contexts.