Georgina Gregory is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is author of Relocating Popular Music (2015) and Send in the Clones: A Cultural Study of the Tribute Band.Mike Dines is Co-Pathway Leader for Popular Music at Middlesex University, UK. He is Co-Editor of Punk Pedagogies (2018), Punk Now!! (2020), Postgraduate Voices in Punk Studies (2016), and The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music (2016).

• Contributor biosAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Mike Dines & Georgina GregoryChapter 1: Beatified Beats, Ritualized Rhymes: Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Music by Antti-Ville KärjäSection One: Personal SpiritualityChapter 2: Leonard Cohen, the ‘Sufi’ Mystic by Jirí MesícChapter 3: Hank and Jesus: The Integral Roles of Religion and the History of Country Music in the Lives and Careers of Contemporary Country Artists by Gillian KellyChapter 4: Above the Clouds: Discourses of the Spiritual and the Religious in the Lyrics of Paul Weller by Paul SpicerSection Two: ChristianityChapter 5: ‘Embracing the Divine Chaos’: Transcending the Sacred-Secular Divide in the 1990s British Rave Church Movement by Lucy Robinson & Chris WarneChapter 6: Pop Goes to Church: Taste, Class and ‘Chav’ Christianity by Georgina GregoryChapter 7: ‘The Time Has Come, Exodus!’: Congo Natty and the Jungle (r)evolution by Shara RambarranChapter 8: ‘Between Hipsters and God There is Sufjan Stevens’: Sufjan Stevens & His Fans by Katelyn MedicSection Three: Alternative ReligionsChapter 9: ‘Save my soul from the poisons of this world’: Straight Edge punk and Religious Re-Enchantment by Francis StewartChapter 10: ‘Message From Thee Temple’: Magick, Occultism, Mysticism and Psychic TVby Mike Dines and Matt GrimesChapter 11: I am god! The transference of musical fandom as religion to worshipping the self by Javier Campos Calvo-SotelIndex

Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music is a stimulating volume for those interested in how these two vital areas of human life interact.

Georgina Gregory is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is author of Relocating Popular Music (2015) and Send in the Clones: A Cultural Study of the Tribute Band.Mike Dines is Co-Pathway Leader for Popular Music at Middlesex University, UK. He is Co-Editor of Punk Pedagogies (2018), Punk Now!! (2020), Postgraduate Voices in Punk Studies (2016), and The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music (2016).

• Contributor biosAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Mike Dines & Georgina GregoryChapter 1: Beatified Beats, Ritualized Rhymes: Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Music by Antti-Ville KärjäSection One: Personal SpiritualityChapter 2: Leonard Cohen, the ‘Sufi’ Mystic by Jirí MesícChapter 3: Hank and Jesus: The Integral Roles of Religion and the History of Country Music in the Lives and Careers of Contemporary Country Artists by Gillian KellyChapter 4: Above the Clouds: Discourses of the Spiritual and the Religious in the Lyrics of Paul Weller by Paul SpicerSection Two: ChristianityChapter 5: ‘Embracing the Divine Chaos’: Transcending the Sacred-Secular Divide in the 1990s British Rave Church Movement by Lucy Robinson & Chris WarneChapter 6: Pop Goes to Church: Taste, Class and ‘Chav’ Christianity by Georgina GregoryChapter 7: ‘The Time Has Come, Exodus!’: Congo Natty and the Jungle (r)evolution by Shara RambarranChapter 8: ‘Between Hipsters and God There is Sufjan Stevens’: Sufjan Stevens & His Fans by Katelyn MedicSection Three: Alternative ReligionsChapter 9: ‘Save my soul from the poisons of this world’: Straight Edge punk and Religious Re-Enchantment by Francis StewartChapter 10: ‘Message From Thee Temple’: Magick, Occultism, Mysticism and Psychic TVby Mike Dines and Matt GrimesChapter 11: I am god! The transference of musical fandom as religion to worshipping the self by Javier Campos Calvo-SotelIndex

Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music is a stimulating volume for those interested in how these two vital areas of human life interact.

Georgina Gregory is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is author of Relocating Popular Music (2015) and Send in the Clones: A Cultural Study of the Tribute Band.Mike Dines is Co-Pathway Leader for Popular Music at Middlesex University, UK. He is Co-Editor of Punk Pedagogies (2018), Punk Now!! (2020), Postgraduate Voices in Punk Studies (2016), and The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music (2016).

• Contributor biosAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Mike Dines & Georgina GregoryChapter 1: Beatified Beats, Ritualized Rhymes: Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Music by Antti-Ville KärjäSection One: Personal SpiritualityChapter 2: Leonard Cohen, the ‘Sufi’ Mystic by Jirí MesícChapter 3: Hank and Jesus: The Integral Roles of Religion and the History of Country Music in the Lives and Careers of Contemporary Country Artists by Gillian KellyChapter 4: Above the Clouds: Discourses of the Spiritual and the Religious in the Lyrics of Paul Weller by Paul SpicerSection Two: ChristianityChapter 5: ‘Embracing the Divine Chaos’: Transcending the Sacred-Secular Divide in the 1990s British Rave Church Movement by Lucy Robinson & Chris WarneChapter 6: Pop Goes to Church: Taste, Class and ‘Chav’ Christianity by Georgina GregoryChapter 7: ‘The Time Has Come, Exodus!’: Congo Natty and the Jungle (r)evolution by Shara RambarranChapter 8: ‘Between Hipsters and God There is Sufjan Stevens’: Sufjan Stevens & His Fans by Katelyn MedicSection Three: Alternative ReligionsChapter 9: ‘Save my soul from the poisons of this world’: Straight Edge punk and Religious Re-Enchantment by Francis StewartChapter 10: ‘Message From Thee Temple’: Magick, Occultism, Mysticism and Psychic TVby Mike Dines and Matt GrimesChapter 11: I am god! The transference of musical fandom as religion to worshipping the self by Javier Campos Calvo-SotelIndex

Exploring the Spiritual in Popular Music is a stimulating volume for those interested in how these two vital areas of human life interact.