Sing Them Over Again to Me
Sing Them Over Again to Me

Author: Mark A. Noll

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2006-04-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0817352929

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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.

Music in American Religious Experience
Music in American Religious Experience

Author: Philip V. Bohlman

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780195173048

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For students and scholars in American music and religious studies, as well as for church musicians, this book is the first to study the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States. The sixteen essayists' contributions to this book address the fullness of music's presence in American religion and religious history.