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Other authors / contributors: | Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel, editor.
Noll, Mark A., 1946- editor.
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ISBN: | 9780817388805 081738880X 0817313966 9780817313968 9780817355449 0817355448
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism. 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 worshi.
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Other form: | Print version: Singing the Lord's song in a strange land : hymnody in the history of North American Protestantism. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2004] xiii, 260 pages ; 24 cm Religion and American culture 9780817313968
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