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engaging in (and debating) particular forms of sound-mediated religious
practice, make and reconstitute not only soundscapes but the particular
religious traditions of which they are part. At the same time, these religious
traditions, whether anchored in written or aural forms of transmission,
are constitutive of particular religious subjects by legitimating particular
forms of aural perception. They thereby (literally) “tune” the senses of the
pious, venerating subject. In this sense, soundscapes constitute a scape in yet
another respect: they form the backdrop for the making of historically and
regionally-culturally determinate religious subjectivities.