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The contributors to this book include scholars, musicians, theologians, medical practitioners, informed listeners and practitioners in religious traditions. It includes case study material, empirical studies, philosophical, theological and theoretical contributions along with accounts from lived experience of the spirituality in Tavener’s music.

The Rev. Professor June Boyce-Tillman MBE, PhD, MA, LRAM, FRSA read music at Oxford University and is Professor Emerita of Applied Music at the University of Winchester and Extra-ordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa. She has published widely on music education and spirituality and is editing the series on Music and Spirituality for Peter Lang.

Associate Professor Anne-Marie Forbes PhD, MMus, MA, BMus, FRSPH leads the interdisciplinary programmes in Creative Arts and Health at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely in historical musicology, focussing on twentieth-century British and Australian music, sacred music and performativity.