Topic summary
Chants
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Chant.
Chant as a spiritual practice
Some examples include chant in African, Hawaiian (mele), Native American, Assyrian and Australian Aboriginal cultures, Gregorian chant, Vedic chant, Quran reading, IslamicDhikr, Baháʼí chants, various Buddhist chants, various mantras, Jewish cantillation, Epicurean repetition of the Kyriai Doxai, and the chanting of psalms and prayers especially in Roman Catholic (see Gregorian chant or Taizé Community), Eastern Orthodox (see Byzantine chant or Znamenny chant, for examples), Lutheran, and Anglican churches (see Anglican Chant).