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Article: Call Me The Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2007
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Call Me The Seeker: Listening to Religion in Popular Music. Edited by Michael J. Gilmour. New York: Continuum International, 2005. x + 310 pp. $24.95 paper.
The cartographies and resulting synergies between religion and popular culture are hot topics, represented in panels at numerous national and international conferences, articles in various journals, and book projects. Much of this attention is devoted to aspects of religiosity within popular music. Gilmour's collection, while framed by a denial of sustained attention to popular music within religious studies, represents a contribution to what already seems a robust subfield. Although Gilmour's introduction to ...