Rongo Univesity Library

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history in a hymn -- Hymns and hymnbooks as cultural icons -- Understanding the classical era of American Protestantism through hymns.

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.

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.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.