Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism

Author:   Edith L. Blumhofer ,  Mark A. Noll ,  Stephen A. Marini
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
ISBN:  

9780817313968


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 July 2004
Format:   Hardback
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Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism


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Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity and define their relationship with America and to Christianity. Representing seven groups - Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Mennonites, Holiness, Hispanics, and Evangelicals - the nine essays reveal how hymns have helped immigrants to establish new identities, contributed to the body of worship resources, and sustained ethnic identity. Individual essays address the music of the Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, America's longest running and most successful independent radio program; singing among Swedish evangelicals in America; the German hymn tradition as transformed by Mennonite immigrants; the ways hymnody reinforces themes of the Wesleyan holiness movement; the history of Mercer's Cluster (1810), a southern hymnal that gave voice to slaves, women, and native Americans; and the Presbyterian hymnal tradition in Canada formed by Scottish immigrants.

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Author:   Edith L. Blumhofer ,  Mark A. Noll ,  Stephen A. Marini
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.554kg
ISBN:  

9780817313968


ISBN 10:   0817313966
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 July 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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This anthology is most original in reaching beyond... familiar lines of analysis to approach hymnody from various oblique angles rooted in religious history, sociology, theology, and evangelical studies. - Mel Piehl, Dean, Christ College, and Professor of Humanities and History, Valparaiso University


This anthology is most original in reaching beyond... familiar lines of analysis to approach hymnody from various oblique angles rooted in religious history, sociology, theology, and evangelical studies. - Mel Piehl, Dean, Christ College, and Professor of Humanities and History, Valparaiso University


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Edith L. Blumhofer is Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Professor of History at Wheaton College, and author of Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister. Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. Stephen Marini is Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies at Wellesley College.

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