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Music Hymns

Class and Idol in the English Hymn

by (author) Lionel Adey

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Hymns, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774844765
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $99.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774803045
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $62.00

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Description

This book completes Lionel Adey's study of English hymnody which began with Hymns and the Christian 'Myth' (1986). Looking at a wide range of adult and school hymnals used between 1700 and 1939, Adey investigates the social context in which the hymns were sung and their influence on the singers. Class and Idol in the English Hymn is pertinent not only to academics in fields of literature, religion, history, and psychology, but also to hymn lovers, hymn writers, and clergy.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Lionel Adey is a professor in the English department at the University of Victoria.

Editorial Reviews

An important book, which, like its predecessor Hymns and the Christian "Myth," will give students of hymnody a new slant on many hymns and hymnbooks ... A book which no student of hymnody can afford to overlook.

The Expository Times

Scholars who are interested in interdisciplinary studies will want to read this work, and those scholars who work in the area of hymnology cannot afford to ignore it.

Religious Studies Review

A perusal of Adey's painstaking study will reward all students of English society and religion, not to mention hymnologists.  His careful observations will be of use not only in confirming some of our most common notions regarding popular Victorian Protestantism, but also - and especially - in qualifying and revising others.

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