The ISM Review is a biannual digital publication of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music dedicated to the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the arts. Bringing together scholars, artists, clergy, musicians, writers, and practitioners from across disciplines and traditions, The Review explores the ways communities are formed, sustained, challenged, and reimagined through artistic and liturgical practice. Read an introduction from ISM director, Professor Martin Jean.
Volume 7.1
Community: Communal Life, Justice, and Connection
This issue reflects on community, and the creation of a just community. Through essays, interviews, reflections, and images, contributors consider how communities emerge and are shaped through worship, performance, memory, storytelling, collaboration, and acts of shared attention. At a moment when many inherited forms of belonging are undergoing profound transformation and society feels increasingly ruptured, our issue asks how sacred and artistic practices continue to shape communal life and connection, and how we can cultivate communities that are truly just.
Augusta Savage, Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp). 1939. Eartha M.M. White Collection.University of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Special Collections and University Archive UNF Digital Commons