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| When Judaism Meets Goodnight Moon: The American Religious Sounds Project |
April 22, 2022 |
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Professors Amy DeRogatis and Isaac Weiner were collecting recordings of traditional religious practices when COVID struck. They had to quickly pivot their work, called the American Religious Sounds Project, a joint venture between The Ohio State University and Michigan State University, to life under lockdown. They have amassed a library of 150 to 200 recordings of religious life under COVID that includes Buddhists chanting as pots and pans bang to thank essential workers, babies babbling as imams try to preach, and a Wiccan coven trying to recreate a ceremony in their homes that they usually perform in community. DeRogatis and Weiner describe what the recordings they have collected tell them about how religious practices may be changed in the long term by COVID.
Amy DeRogatis, Ph.D. Professor of religion and American culture in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, and co-director of the American Religious Sounds Project,
Isaac Weiner, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. Scholar of American religious studies, with research interests in pluralism, law, and sensory culture. Author of Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism from NYU Press. Co-director of the American Religious Sounds Project,
You can submit your own sacred sounds to the American Religious Sounds Project here.
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