Music & Spirituality Special Interest Area
The Music and Spirituality Special Interest Area explores how music plays a part in both in personal and cultural spiritual journeys.
It includes the use of music and sound within Christianity, and in various faith traditions, exploring sacred writings and theological insights on the topic; but it will also challenge the musical leadership within the established traditions and look at the role of intuition, the feminine, the spiritual experience and community building as associated with music/sound. So it seeks to include both cultural and personal stories of music making, listening and discovery.
The coordinator of the Music and Spirituality Special Interest Area is Revd Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE FRSA FHEA, who is Professor Emerita of Applied Music at the University of Winchester and Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, South Africa.
In 2019 Professor Boyce-Tillman founded the International Network for Music, Spirituality and Wellbeing http://mswinternational.org/ which embraces the social, personal, spiritual and political aspects of wellbeing. Their mission is to promote wellbeing in individuals, communities, organisations and the environment, through the use of music. LSC links closely with that Network and sends updates about its work to those who have registered for the Music & Spirituality Special Interest Area.
Resource links
Useful texts on Music and Spirituality – compiled by Revd Prof June Boyce-Tillman
A Cosmic View of Music – a talk by Revd Prof June Boyce-Tillman
Musicking the Cosmos – an article by Rev Prof June Boyce-Tillman on the founding of a virtual choir for peace in 2020.
EcoCarols by Ann Palmer
Music and the Spiritual – the work of Katie Rose
Sign up
To sign up for this Special Interest Area, please subscribe to our newsletter – www.livingspirit.org.uk/newsletter. You will then be given an option to sign up to the SIA, and will get emails with updates from Professor June Boyce-Tillman.
