Combined, the contributions to this volume offer new insight into the role of music in the history of religions, especially through what Sullivan calls the 'power of music's affinity--its mimetic capacity to attune itself to other realities or to provoke other realities into resonating in tune with it.' Each in a different way, the articles collected in this book demonstrate the modes by which the felt enhancement of music can combine with systems of meaning, while describing subsequent intellectual attempts to understand this experience on the part of religious people. The enthomusicological and music-centered perspective that the contributors bring to these and other questions invites scholars of religion better to apprehend the human phenomenon of music and thus more finely 'tune' their analyses of the mythic, ritual, and intellectual dynamics of religious traditions.
-- Anna M. Gade Journal of Religion

• Contents 
• Enchanting Powers: An Introduction
• Sullivan, Lawrence E.
• Tantrism, Rasa, and Javanese Gamelan Music
• Becker, Judith
• World Musics and World Religions: Whose World?
• Bohlman, Philip V.
• Music and Historical Consciousness among the Dagbamba of Ghana
• Chernoff, John
• Historicism and the Quest for D/divine Music
• Harris, Michael W.
• “Musicalizing” the Other: Shamanistic Approaches to Ethnic-Class Competition along the Upper Rio Negro
• Hill, Jonathan D.
• Conceptualizations of Music in Jewish Mysticism
• Idel, Moshe
• Music, Myth, and Medicine in the Choctaw Indian Ballgame
• Levine, Victoria Lindsay
• Islam and Music: The Legal and the Spiritual Dimensions
• Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
• Music and the Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony
• Pian, Rulan Chao
• Sounding the Word: Music in the Life of Islam
• Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt
• Mythologies and Realities in the Study of Jewish Music
• Shelemay, Kay Kaufman
• Notes on the Contributors