Author: Birmingham Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection
Author: Birmingham Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
A Collection of Hymns and Anthems Adapted to Public Worship
Author: ShakersA selection of hymns for public and private worship [compiled by Robert Wallace].
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Author: SelectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Brief List of Materials Relating to Shaker Music
Author: A Dictionary of Hymnology
Author: John JulianA Shaker Musical Legacy
Author: Robert C. OpdahlPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584653608
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A unique collection of Shaker songs and dances that keeps alive this important musical heritage
The Hymnal
Author: Christopher N. PhillipsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.
The A to Z of the Shakers
Author: Stephen J. PaterwicPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870568
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers, followed Mother Ann Lee to the United States in 1774 when life in England became difficult. In the United States, they established several colonies whose governing principals included celibacy and agrarian communal living. Even at its peak, however, Shakerism claimed only about 4,500 members. Today, except for one active community in Sabbathday, Maine, the great Shaker villages are diminished, but the Shakers left an enduring impact on the religion and culture of the United States. The A to Z of the Shakers relates the history of this fascinating group through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on Shaker communities, industries, individual families, and important people. Every definition, biography, and point of history was submitted to the Shakers at Sabbathday Lake for their review before it was included for publication. As such, the voice of the contemporary Shakers is found in the dictionary, and they have given it their unequivocal endorsement.
A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. Ed
Author: John JulianCatalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description