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Cynthia Bourgeault

Chanting the Psalms

A Practical Guide with Instructional CD

Cynthia Bourgeault

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Paperback

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English
Shambhala Publications Inc
15 February 2007
Sacred & religious music; Christianity
"Cynthia Bourgeault shows how chanting the Psalms - those 150 exquisite hymns of praise to God from the Bible - can become a meaningful form of meditation and prayer for laypeople, leading to contemplation, insight, and joy.

In this book-with-CD, Cynthia Bourgeault shows how chanting the Psalms - those 150 exquisite hymns of praise to God from the Bible - can become a meaningful form of meditation and prayer for laypeople, leading to contemplation, insight, and joy. The mindfulness produced by chanting can be tapped into by anyone regardless of musical skill or theological sophistication, and it can be done in community as well as privately. In Chanting the Psalms, Bourgeault provides a history of Christian psalm chanting (also called ""psalmody"") and demonstrates how it relates to other chanting traditions. She also shows how chanting can fit into an existing practice of contemplation and prayer, deepening and enriching it. But she also teaches you how to do it- you can literally sing along with Cynthia on the accompanying CD as she and her friends demonstrate the basic techniques and easy melodies that anyone can learn to make psalmody a personal meditative practice."
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Imprint:   Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 175mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   510g
ISBN:   9781590302576
ISBN 10:   1590302575
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Cynthia Bourgeault, PhD, is an Episcopal priest, teacher, and retreat and conference leader. She is the author of several books, including Chanting the Psalms and Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening.

Reviews for Chanting the Psalms: A Practical Guide with Instructional CD

Bourgeault will be a helpful guide to those who seek to find a viable daily Christian practice, while those who already have a daily discipline may find that her suggestions for chanting deepens and enlarges their experience. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review The best book I've seen on the theory and practice of Christian contemplative psalmody. --Thomas Keating, author of Open Mind, Open Heart and Finding Grace at the Center Few books ever manage to both inform and enthrall in equal measure the way this one does. The whole world of Christian spirituality owes Cynthia Bourgeault an enormous debt of gratitude for having given us a classic. --Phyllis Tickle, compiler of the Divine Hours series Cynthia Bourgeault, a skillful teacher, offers you all of the do-it-yourself instructions you need to thoroughly enjoy the sacred tradition of change and so step from time into the eternal Now. --Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB, cofounder of gratefulness.org


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