Music and Dance of the World's Religions

E. GARDNER RUST is Professor of Music at Sonoma State University, California, where he has taught courses in world music for over 25 years. For the last decade, he has been developing a course on the music and dance of the world's religions. This book is an outgrowth of his interest in the subject.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsGeneral References and StudiesAsia: General ReferencesNorth Asia and Lapland: ShamanismChina/TaiwanTibetKoreaJapanMongoliaCentral AsiaSoutheast AsiaSouth Asia: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and PakistanZoroastrianism and the Parsis of IndiaThe Ancient Near EastMusic and Dance in the BibleJudaismEuropean Christianity: General References, Histories, Surveys, and LiturgyThe Church of RomeWestern European PlainchantWestern European PolyphonyLiturgical Reforms of the 19th and 20th CenturiesVatican II (1962-1965)Orthodox and Other Non-Latin Christian Rites: Liturgy and MusicReligious Music in Great BritainProtestant Music on the European ContinentLiturgical Dance and DramaIslamMusic, Mathematics, and MysticismSub-Saharan AfricaNorth America: Euro-American and Afro-American Religious Music: General ReferencesNorth America: Religious Music of Euro-American OriginNorth America: Afro-American Religious MusicSpirituals and GospelsContemporary Christian MusicJewish and Asian-American Religious MusicLatin American and Afro-American Religious Music of Central and South America and the West IndiesNorth American Indians: General ReferencesNorth American Indians: Music and Dance by RegionCentral and South American IndiansEskimo and Inuit Religious MusicOceaniaAddendumAuthor IndexSubject Index