Welcome to the American Religious Sounds Project blog. Here you will find an archive of posts from researchers, teachers, community members, students, and ARSP team members about their experiences with all aspects of the ARSP. The blog posts, written between 2014-2022, include reflections on teaching with the ARSP archive, responses to gallery exhibits, news stories and updates about the project, descriptions of recording at research sites by both scholars and students, and miscellaneous writings about religion and sound. The blog was intended to be a space for presenting ideas in progress, celebrating collaboration, fostering scholarly networks, and sharing innovative practices for incorporating the ARSP in teaching and research.
Congratulations to ARSP multimedia content producer Lauren Pond, who won the 2016 Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for her color series, Test of Faith. Her photography project, in progress since 2011, documents a family of Pentecostal serpent handlers in West Virginia. In fall 2017, Lauren’s photographs and narrative essay will be published in a book by CDS and Duke University Press.
By Bree Gannon
The Imam prays. A baby cries. This is the human in ceremony, the spontaneous in orchestration.
The Michigan State University research team met with Professor Amy DeRogatis (co-director of the ARSP) on Friday, January 13, 2017, to map out its work for the spring semester. Our team includes five undergraduate researchers and project manager Bree Gannon, a PhD student in WRAC.
Recordings by J. Caroline Toy, Isaac Weiner, and Lauren Pond
Audio editing by Lauren Pond
Photographs by Lauren Pond and Isaac Weiner
Welcome to the blog for the American Religious Sounds Project, a collaborative research project of Ohio and Michigan State Universities. Check back here regularly for updates on our progress!
