Volume 6.1 Spring 2021 – Disaster

How do music, the arts, ritual, and worship affect the way we experience disasters? How do they help us make sense of death, loss, and anguish? In a year that has been marked by disaster for so many people across the globe, these questions are as important as ever. This issue of The Yale ISM Review invites readers to explore these questions in several different contexts: from COVID-19 to migration, from racial oppression to climate change. Amidst the variety of experiences of disaster, sacred arts and ritual emerge in these articles as ways to acknowledge, remember, heal, and hope.

We hope you are inspired and challenged by the pieces here offered. Please share this publication widely! Subscription is free and open to all.

Mark Roosien, guest editor
April 28, 2021

Welcome to The Yale ISM Review

• Guest Editor’s Introduction
  Mark Roosien
• On the Cover

Disaster and After

• Notes on Grief
  LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
• Jewish Liturgical Responses to the Roman Destruction of the Temple
  Ruth Langer

Disasters and Worship Today

• Building Communities of Song in Online Spaces
  Robin J. Freeman
• Music as Embodied Memory in a Time of Crisis
  Tony Alonso
• Bold Humility: Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in White-Dominant Churches
  Marcia W. Mount Shoop
• Preaching During the Twin Pandemics of COVID-19 and Racism: A Conversation with Lisa Thompson and Andrew Wymer
  Lisa L. Thompson & Andrew Wymer; Mark Roosien, host

Depicting the Liminal: Art, Migration, and Occupation

• Faces of a Disaster
  Margaret Olin
• Eye of Witness, Hand of Faith: The Art of Asylum and New Retablos at the Border
  Valarie Lee James

One Final Note

• On the Challenge of Singing a New Church and a New World into Being: Liturgical Space and Prayer Amidst the Planetary Emergency
  Daniel P. Castillo