Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism (Religion and American Culture) - Hardcover

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9780817313968: Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism (Religion and American Culture)

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ISBN 10: 0817313966 ISBN 13: 9780817313968

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2004

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. 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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From the Back Cover:

"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

CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Armstrong, Scott E. Erickson, Daniel Fuller, Philip Goff, Stephen Marini, Katherine McGinn, Barbara Murison, Kay Norton, Daniel Ramirez, and David Rempel Smucker.

About the Author:

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 Profesor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College.

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