U2 and the Religious Impulse Take Me Higher 1st Edition by Scott Calhoun 1501332392 9781501332395

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ISBN 10: 1501332392

ISBN 13: 9781501332395

Author: Scott Calhoun

U2 and the Religious Impulse examines indications in U2’s music and performances that the band work at conscious and subconscious levels as artists who focus on matters of the spirit, religious traditions, and a life guided by both belief and doubt. U2 is known for a career of stirring songs, landmark performances and for its interest in connecting with fans to reach a higher power to accomplish greater purposes. Its success as a rock band is unparalleled in the history of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest acts. In addition to all the thrills one would expect from entertainers at this level, U2 surprises many listeners who examine its lyrics and concert themes by having a depth of interest in matters of human existence more typically found in literature, philosophy and theology. The multi-disciplinary perspectives presented here account for the durability of U2’s art and offer informed explanations as to why many fans of popular music who seek a connection with a higher power find U2 to be a kindred spirit. This study will be of interest to scholars and students of religious studies and musicology, interested in religion and popular music, as well as religion and popular culture more broadly.

Table of contents:

Part I: Meet Me in the Sound

Chapter 1: “Edge, Ring Those Bells”: The Guitar and Its Spiritual Soundscapes in Early U2

Chapter 2: “Looking to Fill That God-Shaped Hole”: The Evolution of U2’s Spiritually Evocative

Chapter 3: Divine Moves: Pneumatology as Passionate Participation in U2’s “Mysterious Ways”

Part II: Lift Me Out of These Blues

Chapter 4: “Hold on to Love”: U2’s Bespoke Exorcism of the 1960s

Chapter 5: Sarajevo and the Popmart Lemon: The Fractured Form and Function of U2’s Walk Through th

Chapter 6: “You Carried the Cross of My Shame”: From Crippling Stigma to Infectious Joy in the S

Part III: Escape Yourself, and Gravity

Chapter 7: The Technological Reach for the Sublime on U2’s 360° Tour

Chapter 8: The “Moment of Surrender”: Medieval Mysticism in the Music of U2

Chapter 9: “In God’s Country”: Spatial Sacredness in U2

Part IV: You Give Me Something I Can Feel

Chapter 10: “You Don’t See Me but You Will”: Jewish Thought and U2

Chapter 11: “Like Faith Needs a Doubt”: U2 and the Theist/Nontheist Dialogue

Chapter 12: Finding What They’re Looking For: Evangelical Teen Fans and Their Desire for U2 to Be

Chapter 13: U2 and the Art of Being Human

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