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This article explores the role that music consumption plays in cultural expression, identity formation, and meaning-making activity in the West.

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Using qualitative data from a 2009–2010 study of 231 music users, the authors analyse and map respondents’ declarations about listening practices in relation to their other socio-cultural habits and life commitments.

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This is the third of four papers emerging from our research project into the common ground between religious practice and listening to popular music. It provides more in depth analysis of the qualitative data which informed our book "Personal Jesus: How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls" (Baker Academic, 2012)

Dr Vaughan S Roberts
Coventry Cathedral

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This page is a summary of: Listening as Religious Practice (Part Two): Exploring Qualitative Data from an Empirical Study of the Cultural Habits of Music Fans, Journal of Contemporary Religion, April 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2015.1025558.
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