Introduction: Music and Ethics in Contemporary Christianity-Mark Porter and Nathan Myrick; Part I: The Body and Beyond; 1 Praise, Politics, Power: Ethics of the Body in Christian Musicking-Marcell Silva Steuernagel; 2 The Silence of the Monks—The Ethics of Everyday Sounds-Marcel Cobussen; 3 Delay, or, When Breath Precedes Encounter: Aesthet(h)ic(al) Negotiations in Black Gospel’s Afro-Asian Crossings-Bo kyung Blenda Im; Part II: Fulfilling Responsibilities and Negotiating Values; 4 "That Worship Sound": Ethics, Things, and Shimmer Reverberation-Jeff R Warren; 5 Amateurism-without-Amateurishness, or Authenticity as Vanishing Act in Evangelical Worship Music-Joshua Kalin Busman; 6 Music Business, Ethics, and Christian Festivals: Progressive Christianity at Wild Goose Festival-Andrew Mall; 7 The Ethics of Adaptation in Hymns and Songs for Worship-Maggi Dawn; Part III: Identity and Encounter; 8 "Hillsong and Black": The Ethics of Style, Representation and Identity in the Hillsong Megachurch-Tanya Riches and Alexander Douglas; 9 A Worship-Rooted Lifestyle? Exploring Evangelical Ethics at Bethel Church, Redding, CA-Emily Snider Andrews; 10 Applied Ethnomusicology in Postmission Australian Aboriginal Contexts: Ethical Responsibility, Style, and Aesthetics-Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg; 11 Singing Together as Global Citizens: Toward a Musical Ethic of Relational Accompaniment-Maren Haynes Marchesini; Section IV: Valuing the Self; 12 Deceitful Hearts and Transformed Lives: Performing Truth and Truthfulness in Fundamentalist Christian Vocal Music-Sarah Bereza; 13 Beyoncé Mass and the Flourishing of Black Women-Tamisha Tyler; 14 Ethics, Experience, and Western Classical Sacred Music-Jonathan Arnold