Past issues of the Yale ISM Review comprise a rich, curated collection that explored diverse topics in sacred music, worship, and the related arts. Each issue brought together interdisciplinary essays, multimedia features, and reflections from Yale faculty and leading practitioners to examine historical, liturgical, musical, and visual practices in depth. Designed for scholars, clergy, musicians, and arts professionals, the archive showcases critical perspectives, case studies, and creative work that illuminate the evolving intersections of faith, art, and ritual.
Explore Past Issues
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Volume 6.1 Spring 2021 - Disaster
Amidst the variety of experiences of disaster, sacred arts and ritual emerge as ways to acknowledge, remember, heal, and hope.
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Volume 5.1 Fall 2019 – Healing
Music and the arts, prayer and worship, can touch our wounds and open the way to healing.
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Volume 4.2 Fall 2018 - Beatitudes
Our fall issue centers on the theme of the Beatitudes, a classic text of the Christian tradition taken from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel.
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Volume 4.1 Winter 2018 - Poverty
To consider poverty, one must acknowledge deep and often complex conditions that cause real human suffering.
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Volume 3.1 Fall 2016 - Christmas
Christmas, one of the great feasts of the Christian calendar, has been shaped and inculturated in innumerable ways through the centuries.
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Volume 2.1 Fall 2015 - Water
Our current issue is organized around the theme of water—that basic human element that plays such an important role in our lives.
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Volume 1.2 Spring 2015 - Passion
How has this central mystery of the Christian faith inspired and continue to inspire music, art, literature, homiletics, liturgy, and devotion.
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Volume 1.1 Fall 2014 - Song
Church communities must present a convincing case for communal worship, and perhaps most especially for the assembly’s song.
