Worship Sound Spaces: Architecture, Acoustics and Anthropology

Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of audiovisual documents
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Introduction – Religious listenings: a multidisciplinary approach • Christine Guillebaud and Catherine Lavandier
Part I: Sonic architecture: acoustic intentions in worship buildings
	1 Characterizing the acoustics of places of worship: should we believe in acoustic indicators? • Marc Asselineau
	2 Towards a history of architectural acoustics using archaeological evidence: recent research contributions to understanding the use of acoustic pots in the quest for sound quality in 11th- to 17th-century churches in France • Jean-Christophe Valière and Bénédicte Palazzo-Bertholon
	3 Temple soundspaces and ancient Hindu ritual texts • Gérard Colas
Part II: Experiencing the sacred through sound
	4 The worldmaking ways of church bells: three stories about the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris • Gaspard Salatko
	5 What should the reverberation inside a masjid be? A study exploring the demands of Imams • Ahmed Elkhateeb
	6 “Soundwalks in Shiva temple”: a situated approach to perceived ambiance • Christine Guillebaud
	7 Bells, auspiciousness and the god of music: reflections on sound in ritual space in Nepalese Hindu traditions • Astrid Zotter
	8 Resonant voices and spatial politics: an acoustemology of citizenship in a Muslim neighbourhood of the Kenyan coast • Andrew J. Eisenberg
Part III: Restoring the sound ambiances of the past
	9 The church beyond worship: experiencing monumental soundspaces in the Roman Catholic churches of Montréal (Québec, Canada) • Josée Laplace
	10 Sound heterotopia in Cistercian monastery • Pascal Joanne
	11 The original acoustics of the 17th-century Mughal heritage of Burhanpur, India • Amit J. Wahurwagh, Akshay P. Patil and Alpana R. Dongre
Afterword: a world of attunements • Jean-Paul Thibaud
Index