Amanda J. Haste, Ph.D.

NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars

Ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines

Foreword by Ronald Gross

(National Coalition of Independent Scholars, March 2024)

Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism

Amanda J. Haste (Routledge, October 2023)

“A rich, wide-ranging and illuminating study of today’s monastic lifestyle, framed by the vital role of music in most communities. Using ethnographic, theological and multi-disciplinary evidence, Dr. Haste offers a balanced and fascinating treatment of the lives of women and men who have committed themselves to the monastic lifestyle.” Valerie Abrahamsen, Th.D. (December 2023). Read full review here.

“…a comprehensive and compelling study of the agency of music in the construction and expression of personal and community identity. This is not a book just for university libraries, this is a text for choral composers, those fascinated by chants and plainsong but also those interested in exercises in the ethnography of unusual groups, how to embed those diatribes and conversations within rigorous academic endeavours. Overall, this is an exceptional feat of research and ethnography.” Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack, Ph.D. (April 2024). Read full review here.

“It is not often that the musical lives of monastic communities in contemporary times have become topics of research…. A detailed knowledge of the liturgy, Vatican regulations on liturgical music (in the case of the Roman Catholic tradition), and exceptions made to such regulations is required to sort out the differences between the theory versus the practice of what gets sung (or performed), and where, and by whom. What researchers often do not get to know is the kinds of music those living a monastic life engage in for leisure and the kinds of music they, or their predecessors wrote, in adopting existing liturgical music, or soundscapes, to contemporary idioms for use in the Divine Office sometimes closed to the public. In addition to all these skills, a working knowledge of ecclesiastical Latin (and occasionally ancient Greek) is required and an eye—and ear—for deciphering various methods of musical notation and text–music relationships to spot quirky and sometimes troublesome modern settings in teaching new music. Amanda J. Haste possesses all these skills and has written a book that stands as an excellent model of how such research can be conducted.” Paul Watts, University of Adelaide (27 Nov. 2025) in Music and Letters, gcaf181, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcaf181.

Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars

Ed. Helen Ross, Linda Baines and Amanda Haste

(Battleboro, VT: National Coalition of Independent Scholars, 2022)

Constructing Identity in an Age of Globalization

Ed. James E. Block and Amanda Haste (Paris: Ex Modio, 2015)

This volume emerged from an international conference in Paris on “Global Identities” whose essays demonstrate the insight to be gained variously through ethnography, interviews, popular culture, literature and poetry, musicology, religion, the culinary arts, history, and social theory.

2024. ‘What is an Independent Scholar…and how do they survive?’ By Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines. NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 7-12.

2024. ‘Thinking across boundaries: Interdisciplinarity in independent research.’ NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 94-97.

2024. ‘Ensuring the rigor of your research.’ NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 145-151.

2024. ‘Staying well: Self-care for Independent Scholars.’ By Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines. NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars, ed. Amanda J. Haste and Linda Baines (National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 164-174.

2023 ‘Entente musicale.’ ITI Bulletin: Journal of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (Jan/Feb 2024), pp. 11-15.

2022 ‘New wine in old bottles: Creating a musical repertoire for a new religious community.’ Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars, A Learned Cookbook, ed. Helen Ross, Amanda Haste and Linda Baines (Battleboro, VT: National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 50-53.

2022 ‘For those in peril on the sea…And on Land: A Brief History of the Mission to Seamen in Marseille.’ Global Cuisines by Independent Scholars, A Learned Cookbook, ed. Helen Ross, Amanda Haste and Linda Baines (Battleboro, VT: National Coalition of Independent Scholars), pp. 35-41.

2021  ‘Using Translation as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching English to Musicians and Musicologists.’ The Independent Scholar Vol. 8 (December 2021), pp. 33-46.   

2020  ‘The British Colony in Marseille: Meeting the Challenges of Migrant Life 1850-1900.’ The Independent Scholar Vol. 6 (February 2020), pp. 21-32.

2019   ‘A Musician Abroad: Linguistic Challenges in Establishing a Musician Identity.’ Language, Identity and Community. Lodz Studies in Language 62 (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 127-141. DOI 10.3726/b14989.

2018  ‘A language “clearly understanded of the people”: The construction of an Anglo-Catholic linguistic identity 1850-2015.’ Languages of Religion: Exploring the Politics of the Sacred, ed. Sipra Mukherjee(London & New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 122-139. DOI 113836374X.

2018  ‘Anglican/Episcopalian Women Religious.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 166-7.

2018   ‘Chastity.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 175-6.

2018   ‘Contemporary Women’s Monastic Orders.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 230-231.

2018   ‘Marriage, Divorce, Widowhood.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 213-216.

2018  ‘Monastic Life.’ Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 227-9.

2018  ‘Mystics.’ Co-authored with Susan de Gaia. Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. Ed. Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, Great Britain: ABC-CLIO. Vol. 1, pp. 239-242.

2017   ‘Crossing boundaries: Establishing and communicating a cross-cultural musician identity.’ The Independent Scholar Vol. 3 (June 2017), pp. 26-45. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.3%20June2017_HASTE_Crossing%20boundaries%20establishing%20communicating%20cross-cultural%20musician%20identity_FINAL.pdf

2016   ‘The English Church in Marseilles: A Haven of the British Empire’ CHOMBEC News. Issue 21 (Summer 2016) ISSN 1751-3308.Centre for the History of Music in the British Empire and Commonwealth, University of Bristol, pp. 5-7.

2016  ‘Getting the message across: Linguistic issues in academic writing.’ The Independent Scholar Vol. 2 (September 2016), pp. 18-27. https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.2%20Sep2016_HASTE_GETTING_MESSAGE_ACROSS_TRANSLATING_MEANING_ACADEMIC_READERSHIP_FINAL.pdf

2016  ‘Conflict and reparation: The agency of music in modern monastic community dynamics.’ Music and Arts in Action Vol. 5 Issue 2, pp. 39-51. http://musicandartsinaction.net/index.php/maia/article/view/conflictandreparation.

2015   ‘A third gender? Expression of gender identity in celibate monasticism through words and music’ in Contemporary Identities in Global Context, ed. James E. Block and Amanda J. Haste (Paris: Ex Modio), pp. 114-126.

2014   ‘Cyberchant: Medium and message in the computerised notation of newly composed monastic music.’ Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology – CIM14. (Berlin: Society for Interdisciplinary Musicology, 2014), pp. 28-32. file:///C:/Users/ajhaste2/Downloads/cim14_proceedings_frontmatter.pdf

2014   ‘Buying into the monastic experience: Are chant recordings the real thing?’ in Genuine Copies: The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World, ed. Russell Cobb (Toronto: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 69-84.

2013    ‘Prayerful silence and creative response in twenty-first-century monasticism.’ Culture and Religion. Vol. 14, Issue 3, pp. 268-288.  First published on line 30 January 2013  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14755610.2012.758159.

2012   ‘The Lord’s Prayer as song: Performance, gesture and meaning.’ Journal of Religion, Media & Digital Culture, issue 4, volume 1 (December 2012). Available online on < The Lord’s Prayer as Song: Performance, Gesture and Meaning in: Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture Volume 1 Issue 2 (2012)>.