Profile at University Heidelberg
Dr. Isabel Laack’s interests in aesthetics of religion are manifold. She is widely recognized as pioneer in the field of musicology of religion with particular foci on sound/music in religious rituals, concepts and knowledge production. With a Marie-Curie grant, she has also studied Aztec religious text concepts and practices with a view to the specific correlation between religious world views, concepts of the body and the senses and religious media.
Book
| Religion und Musik in Glastonbury. Eine Fallstudie zu gegenwärtigen Formen religiöser Identitätsdiskurse, Göttingen 2011 |
Articles
| Sound and Music in the Study of Religion: A Preliminary Cartography of a New Transdisciplinary Research Field, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 27/3, 2015, 220-246. doi 10.1163/15700682-12341339 |
| Körper – Musik – Religion: Theoretische und methodologische Überlegungen, in: O. Krüger, N. Weibel (eds.): Die Körper der Religionen, Zürich 2015, 261-284 |
| Glastonbury als spirituelles Zentrum. Imagination einer religiösen Topografie zwischen sinnlicher Wahrnehmung und religionsgeschichtlicher Deutung, in: A. Wilke, L. Traut (eds.): Religion – Imagination – Ästhetik: Vorstellungs- und Sinneswelten in Religion und Kultur, Göttingen 2014 |
| Rekursivität, Invention und Ritualdesign in den Sacred Dramas der Goddess People of Avalon (England), Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 19 (2011) 212-242 |