Singing the Lord's song in a strange land : hymnody in the history of North American Protestantism /

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Imprint:Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2004]
©2004
Description:1 online resource (277 pages)
Language:English
Series:Religion and American culture
Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11236212
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Other authors / contributors:Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel, editor.
Noll, Mark A., 1946- editor.
ISBN:9780817388805
081738880X
0817313966
9780817313968
9780817355449
0817355448
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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