While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: Christian ...

It is one of the most surprising music stories of the year. While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — ...

A glance at the current issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion: How globalized music affects religious practices Religious practices and ideas are changing because of a globalized ...

Two veteran cable executives plan to start the Gospel Music Channel in the fall, providing a TV outlet for a diverse genre that encompasses soulful church music and Christian rock and rap. The Gospel ...

For viewers weaned on an era when American Idol incubated household names like Kelly Clarkson and Adam Lambert, the special might have seemed jarring. But since the show’s revival landed on ABC in ...

He couldn’t avoid church music, but that doesn’t mean he had to totally embrace it. Writing the score for Edward Berger’s thriller “Conclave,” set inside the Vatican during the election of a new pope, ...

The LGBTQ+ community has been a constant punching bag this year for conservative-leaning religious politicians and their followers, especially, but this take is only part of the story. Plenty of ...

Just in time for the holiday season, a federal appeals court has upheld a New Jersey school district’s restrictions on religious music at holiday performances in its schools. A three-judge panel of ...

Guitar magnets are displayed at the Ryman Auditorium gift shop in Nashville, Tennessee, in July. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium is known as the Mother Church of Country Music. And, ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...

The birth of contemporary Christian rock and pop music in America can in part be traced to a vision received by a 17-year-old runaway from Costa Mesa named Lonnie Frisbee. After stripping naked and ...