Hymnody as history: Early evangelical hymns and the recovery of American popular religion

Church History

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 273-304

  Marini, Stephen ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 61149411504     PISSN: 00096407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s000964070009569x     Document Type: Article

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1. Peter W. Williams, Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective, 2d ed. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1989), xi
2. Jesse Mercer, The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns, and Social Poems 3d ed., rev. (Augusta, Ga.: Hobby and Bunce, 1810)
3. John Wyeth, Repository of Sacred Music, Parts 1 and 2 (Harrisburg: John Wyeth, 1810 and 1813)
4. Nathan Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 34-40, 146-61
5. Hatch, Democratization, 34-40
6. David D. Hall, ed., Lived Religion in America: Toward a History of Practice (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997), vii-xii
7. Charles H. Lippy, Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1994), 10
8. John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology (London: John Murray, 1892)
9. Louis F. Benson, The English Hymn: Its Development and Use (New York: Doran, 1915)
10. Henry Wilder Foote, Three Centuries of American Hymnody (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1940)
11. Irving Lowens, Music and Musicians in Early America (New York: Norton, 1964)
12. Karl Kroeger, ed., The Complete Works of William Billings (Boston: American Musicological Society/Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1981-90)
13. Allen Britton, Irving Lowens, and Richard Crawford, American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698-1810: A Bibliography (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1990)
14. Donald Davie, A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978)
15. Dissentient Voice: The Ward-Philips Lectures for 1980 with Some Related Pieces (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982)
16. J. R. Watson, The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
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18. Sandra Sizer [Frankiel], Gospel Hymns and Social Religion: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Religion (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978)
19. Jon Michael Spencer, Protest and Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1990)
20. June Hadden Hobbs, "I Sing for I Cannot be Silent": The Feminization of American Hymnody, 1870-1920 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997)
21. Katherine Smith Diehl, Hymns and Times: An Index (Metuchen, N.J.: ATLA Press)
22. Richard Crawford, The Core Repertory of American Psalmody (Madison, Wisc: A-R Editions, 1984)
23. and Britton, et al., American Sacred Music Imprints in selecting hymn collections and tune books for the database
24. U. Milo Kaufmann, The Pilgrim's Progress and Traditions in Puritan Meditation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966)
25. Charles Hambrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982)
26. Clifford Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System," in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (New York: Basic, 1973), 87-125
27. Reginald Heber, Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Service of the Year (London: J. Murray, 1827)
28. John Fawcett, Hymns (Bristol, 1782), hymn 104
29. Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, and George A. Rawlyk, eds., Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles, and Beyond, 1700-1990 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 6
30. John Wesley, A Collection of Hymns for the People Called Methodists, ed. Franz Hildebrandt and Oliver A. Beckerlegge (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983), 74
31. Isaac Watts, Horae Lyricae: Poems Chiefly of the Lyrical Kind (London, 1706)
32. Watts, HSS, book 2, hymn 9
33. Watts, HSS, book 1, hymn 7
34. Joseph Hart, Hymns Composed on Various Subjects (London, 1759)
35. Anne Steele, Poems Chiefly Devotional (London, 1760), 1:17
36. On class attitudes in these poems see Lionel Adey, Class and Idol in the English Hymn (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988), 21-32
37. Charles Wesley, Hymns for Those That Seek, and Those That Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (London, 1747)
38. Watts, Sermons, 3 vols. (London, 1721-24), vol. 3
39. Watts, HSS, book 2, hymn 3 and book 2, hymn 110
40. Charles Wesley, Funeral Hymns, Enlarged (London, 1759)
41. Watts, HSS, book 2, hymn 66 and book 1, hymn 62
42. Robert Seagrave, Hymns for Christian Worship (London, 1742)
43. Williams, Popular Religion in America, xiii
44. Sizer, Gospel Hymns and Social Religion, 50-82
45. Selma Bishop, ed., Isaac Watts: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-1748: A Study in Early Eighteenth-Century Language Changes (London: Faith, 1962), liii-liv
46. Bishop, Isaac Watts, liii