Sing them over again to me hymns and hymnbooks in America (University of Alabama Press, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. - The history in a hymn -- - "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 -- - 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, 1830-1890 - 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
Presents a study of the importance of Protestant hymns in defining America and American religion. This book looks at the ability of such hymns to reveal shifts in American popular religion. It also focuses attention on the role hymns play in changing attitudes about race, class, gender, economic life, politics, and society