Date

7-22-2025

Department

School of Health Sciences

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy in Health Sciences (PhD)

Chair

Lindsay Egli

Keywords

attribution, worship drumming, spiritual well-being, spiritual disciplines

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Abstract

The purpose of this case study was to bridge the knowledge gap and discover the relationship between worship drumming and Christian spiritual well-being. It also examined the spiritual disciplines developed from worship drumming that impact Christian spiritual well-being. The theory guiding this study was the religious attribution theory, as it is used to describe how people use religious explanations to understand events that cannot be explained by natural causes. The theoretical framework that falls under the religious attribution theory was the Feedback Loop Model for Religious Worship Experiences, which showed the dynamic of how music and the environment can provoke a subjectively perceived spiritual encounter. The central research question for this study focused on the relationship between worship drumming and the Christian spiritual well-being of the drummer. Participants for this study were drummers who currently volunteer as worship drummers, were members of their church, and had at minimum four years of worship drumming experience. The setting for this study was completely virtual. The researcher utilized Microsoft Teams to conduct semi-structured interviews. Data analysis consisted of the researcher reading the transcripts to document emergent ideas to create initial codes. Data was imported into MAXQDA to create themes and subthemes. The findings of this research suggest that there is a relationship between worship drumming and Christian spiritual well-being.

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