Sing them over again to me : hymns and hymnbooks in America

Noll, Mark A., 1946- (Added Author). Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0817315055 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780817315054 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0817352929 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780817352929 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xvii, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"Amazing grace" : the history of a hymn and a cultural icon / D. Bruce Hindmarsh -- The Methodist national anthem : "O for a thousand tongues to sing" and the development of American Methodism /John R. Tyson -- "All hail the power of Jesus' name" : significant variations on a significant theme / Mark A. Noll -- Textual editing and the "making" of hymns in nineteenth-century America / Mary De Jong -- Textual changes in popular occasional hymns found in American evangelical hymnals / Samuel J. Rogal -- Indices : more than meets the I / Mary Louise VanDyke -- Fanny Crosby, William Doane, and the making of gospel hymns in the late nineteenth century / Edith L. Blumhofer -- Heritage and hymnody : Richard Allen and the making of African Methodism / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Singing pilgrims : hymn narratives of a pilgrim community's progress from this world to that which is to come, 1830-1890 / Candy Gunther Brown -- Children of the Heavenly King : hymns in the religious and social experience of children, 1780-1850 / Heather D. Curtis -- Domesticity in American hymns, 1820-1870 / Susan VanZanten Gallagher.