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.

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 Music Concise Edition : Global Journey by Terry E. Miller and Andrew Shahriari
ISBN: 9781317974604
Publication Date: 2014
An ideal introduction to the diversity of musical expression around the world, taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear, the mind, and the spirit.
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."