Sociomusicologist Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, in her review of Music & Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism, describes this book as “an exceptional feat of research and ethnography”. Author Amanda J. Haste tackles topics from gender identity through the commodification of monastic music to the ‘Singing Nun’ phenomenon.  
To read the review of this fascinating book, go to https://www.ncis.org/book-reviewsthe-independent-scholar-tis.