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Noll, Mark A. ; Blumhofer, Edith L.
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Sing them over again to me : hymns and hymnbooks in America $c / edited by Mark A. Noll and Edith L. Blumhofer.

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

xvii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series: Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, AL)

Contents: Part I:The history in a hymn--Amazing grace / D. Bruch 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: significan variations on a significant theme / Mark A. Noll.

Part II: Hymns and Hymnbooks as Cultural Icons--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.

Part III: Understanding the Classical Era of American Protestantism through Hymns--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, 1830-1980 / 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.

Hymns, English--United States--History and criticism.
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Protestant churches--United States--History.
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