The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball game, the "drum history" of the Dagbamba, the chanting of the Qur'an--these are some of the topics addressed in this collection of essays by eminent musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and religionists as they consider the intersection of musics and religions in different world cultures.

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Professor of the History of Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions.

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Other HUP Books by Lawrence E. Sullivan

• Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans

Other HUP Books by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Other HUP Books by Rulan Chao Pian

Other HUP Books by Kay Kaufman Shelemay

• Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture