Appel à contributions YJMR, numéro spécial « Sonic Pollution and Rituals of Purification ».

« This special issue explores how spiritual communities identify sonic pollution and use rituals of purification to protect sacred spaces and quotidian soundscapes from sounds that are perceived as being dangerous, forbidden, or undesirable. Contributions might focus on divine sound and processes of consecration, sacralization, and exclusion; how sounds and sonic bodies are made theologically legitimate; or how sounds, bodies, and instruments deemed polluting are cleansed by masking, suppressing, silencing, destroying, rewriting, or purifying. While discourses of sonic pollution often center the voices of those defining pollution, this issue also seeks to understand the perspectives of those named as polluters—those excluded because of the sounds they create or with which they are associated. By inviting authors to address the reasons communities identify sonic pollutants and their strategies for sonic purification, this issue will create space for scholars and practitioners to theorize and understand consecration, sacralization, exclusion, and purification across spiritual traditions. »

Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2025.

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