Gustavo Moura is a scholar of religion with academic training and lived experience in South Asian traditions.
Over the past few decades, the Indian devotional singing tradition known as Kirtan has become a global phenomenon, encompassing many new forms and styles and utilizing a variety of musical instruments. As both a scholar and practitioner, Gustavo Moura, in Sacred Sound and the Transcultural Practice of Kirtan, has provided a descriptive map of the types of Kirtan across several continents, as well as a ‘sound’ theological and historical foundation for understanding what more and more appears to be a major transformational sacred practice around the world. -- Guy Beck, Tulane University