To Our Readers
How do music, the arts, ritual, and worship affect the way we experience disasters? How do they help us make sense of death, loss, and anguish? In a year that has been marked by disaster for so many people across the globe, these questions are as important as ever. This issue of The Yale ISM Review invites readers to explore these questions in several different contexts: from COVID-19 to migration, from racial oppression to climate change. Amidst the variety of experiences of disaster, sacred arts and ritual emerge in these articles as ways to acknowledge, remember, heal, and hope.
We hope you are inspired and challenged by the pieces here offered. Please share this publication widely! Subscription is free and open to all.
Mark Roosien, guest editor
April 28, 2021
Table of Contents
Welcome to The Yale ISM Review
Disaster and After
Jewish Liturgical Responses to the Roman Destruction of the Temple
Disasters and Worship Today
Building Communities of Song in Online Spaces
Music as Embodied Memory in a Time of Crisis
Bold Humility: Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in White-Dominant Churches
Depicting the Liminal: Art, Migration, and Occupation
Eye of Witness, Hand of Faith: The Art of Asylum and New Retablos at the Border