Sing Them over Again to Me: Hymns an Hymnbooks in America - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817352929 ISBN 13 : 9780817352929

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2006

Synopsis

Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.

This work is a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and American religion. It explores the underappreciated influence of hymns in shaping many spheres of personal and corporate life as well as the value of hymns for studying religious life. Distinguishing features of this volume are studies of the most popular hymns ("Amazing Grace," "O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing," "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name"), with attention to the ability of such hymns to reveal, as they are altered and adapted, shifts in American popular religion. The book also focuses attention on the role hymns play in changing attitudes about race, class, gender, economic life, politics, and society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark A. Noll is McManis Chair of Christian Thought at Wheaton College and coeditor with Edith L. Blumhofer of Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism. 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817352929
• ISBN 13: 9780817352929
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Éditeur: Noll Mark, Blumhofer Edith
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