Module 3, Class 2: Strategic Deployments of Rhythm for Social Change
Rhythm is used as a tool of social change both in its capacity to hold people together and its capacity to challenge the status quo through improvisation.
Module 3, Class 1: Rhythm: Holding People Together, Keeping People Apart
The roles of rhythm in communal identity-formation are complex. Take as an example its role in race-relations in the Americas.
Module 2, Class 4: Is Rhythm the Same as Rote?
Why do rote rituals appear to be ineffective against depression? Does this mean rhythm is irrelevant?
Module 2, Class 3: Acedia and Monastic Rhythms
As it happens, St Benedict attempted to curb something very much like depression through the application of rhythm.
Module 2, Class 2: Rhythm, Rumination, and Habit Formation
When we attempt to change our rhythms, whether rhythms of rumination or habit formation, what is it exactly we are doing?
Module 2, Class 1: Julia Kristeva and the Rhythms of Depression
An introduction to Julia Kristeva’s analysis of the role of rhythm and language in depression.
Module 1, Class 3: Rhythm and the Dissolution of Temporal Boundaries
Rhythm is tied to time. We cannot experience one without the other. But in certain cases, rhythm can also effect a suspension of time.
Module 1, Class 2: Liturgical Rhythm Forming the Rhythms of Life
Most agree that liturgy is rhythmic. What is less clear is how this rhythm relates to all the other rhythms of life.
Module 1, Class 1: Rhythm, Religion, and Self-Care
This is a series on a class about rhythm that I’m teaching this semester. Class 1: The Rhythms of the Body, their Role in self-care, and their impact on worship.
Four Methodological Contributions of my Research on Rhythm
One of the most fascinating things about research is that it’s not always clear to the one doing the research what the significance is of what has been done.
The Rhythmic Theology Project 