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The Yale Journal of Music & Religion announces publication of a new issue: “The Power of Timbre in Religion” (Vol. 11, No. 1), guest-edited by Dr. Bo kyung Blenda Im (Yale University) and Dr. Nathan Myrick (Mercer University).
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Table of Contents
Introduction
• Bo kyung Blenda Im, Nathan Myrick: “The Power of Timbre in Religion”
Articles
• Fernando Berwig Silva: “Sounds Like Saudade: Eschatological Echoes in Brazilian Gospel Music”
• Joshua K. Busman, Nathan Myrick: “From the Heaviest, Dirtiest Depths to the Washy, Ambient Clouds: Guitar Timbre in/as Schismogenesis in North American Christianity”
• Dylan Crosson: “A Sunlit Ambiance: How Reverb Pedals Influence the Contemporary Worship Music Imagination”
• Maren Haynes Marchesini: “Performing ‘Manly’ Worship Music: Gender and Timbre at Mars Hill Church”
• Catherine Provenzano: “Live Wire: The Angelus Temple and the Timbre of Power”
• Margaret L. Rowley: “Singing a Wide Heart: Timbre and Sung Prayer in Senegal’s Layène Community”
• Eugenia Siegel Conte: “Timbre — A Transcendent Paradox?”
• Marcell Silva Steuernagel: “Between Sound and Theology: Timbral Performativity in Brazilian Religious Musicking”
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In addition, the YJMR reiterates two ongoing calls. Please send any questions and proposals to Editor-in-Chief Jeffers Engelhardt (jeffers.engelhardt@yale.edu).
• Call for Submissions: general-issue submissions considered on a rolling basis. We are pleased to offer an accelerated review process for submissions received prior to November 15, 2025.
• Call for Translations: English translations of primary sources, scholarship, essays, and commentaries considered on a rolling basis.
