Contents: Music and Authenticity in the Contemporary Context: Individualism, Community, and Negotiations of Diversity - Karin S. Hendricks and June Boyce- Tillman: Music, Connection, and Authenticity - Stephen B. Roberts: Music and Spirituality in a Polyphonic Public Sphere - Bruce Ellis Benson: Improvisation as Spiritual Exercise: The Improvisational Virtues of Empathy, Humility, and Trust - Amira Ehrlich: Popular Music for Religious Authenticity in Israeli Jewish Religious Education - Estelle R. Jorgensen: On Values and Life's Journey through Music: Reflections on the Eriksons' Life Stages and Music Education - Authentic Connection and Wellbeing - Deborah J. Saidel: A Pathway to Wellbeing: Transcending a Compensatory History of Women in Music - Jungmin Grace Han: Interlude 1: The Sacred Space Within: Towards Mind-Body Unity through Musical Performance - Maria Giulia Marini: Interlude 2: Music: To Each Their Own When Illness Comes but Rhythm Is Universal - Keith D. Thomasson: Creative Spirit : Conversations that Accompany Creativity in the Lives of Young People Who Are at Risk of Homelessness - Liesl Van Der Merwe, Janelize Morelli, and Catrien Wentink: Exploring Lived Experiences of Relationality during Participatory Performances of Sacred Musics at a Care Home for the Elderly - Gareth Dylan Smith: Mud Drums and Magic: Spirituality and Collaborative Improvised Drumming - Anne T. Jones: Interlude 3: A Counselor's Search to Understand How Her Post- Traumatic Growth and Recovery Were Facilitated by Music -Therapy, Education, and Caring - Giorgos Tsiris: Tracing Spirituality in Everyday Music Therapy Contexts: Methodological Reflections - Jillian Schofield: Interlude 4: Healing with Shamanic Drums - June Boyce- Tillman: Music, Meditation, and Mandalas: Re- Enchanting the Care Home - Laura Benjamins: Facilitating Relational Spaces of Musicking: A Music Educator's Practice of Care - Karin S. Hendricks: Authentic Connection in Music Education: A Chiastic Essay - Fabian Lochner and Michele Keim: 'Only When I Think the Light...': Teaching Religion Inclusively in a Camphill SEND Setting - Faith Halverson- Ramos: Gerotranscendence and Music Therapy: Supporting a Transpersonal Dimension to Aging - Ecology - Dave Camlin: Recovering Our Humanity: What's Love (and Music) Got to Do with It? - Jennifer Kershaw: Interlude 5: This Holy Adventure: A Meditation in Loving Memory of Paul Robertson - Chris Roberts: Re-Imagining Ritual, Creating Communitas - Tawnya D. Smith: Spiraling to Life: Listening and Sounding toward a Life-Sustaining Society.