Explore the overlooked life of Tiun Chhang-mia, the Taiwanese woman behind the nineteenth century's most accomplished missionary, George Leslie Mackay.
Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage.
This pioneering study of ballets staged in Parisian music halls brings to light a vibrant dance culture central to the renewal of French choreography at the fin de siecle.
In this volume, Frank Macchia offers a systematic theology written with Christ's outpouring of the Holy Spirit from the heavenly Father at Pentecost as its dominant motif.
Romeo und Julia unter den Brücken von New YorkRund 350 Jahre nach Shakespeares Tragödie "Romeo and Juliet" fanden vier amerikanische Bühnenkünstler zusammen, um aus der Renaissance-Vorlage ein aktuelles Zeitstück zu formen.
The Reformed tradition in the twenty-first century is increasingly diverse, dynamic, and deeply engaged in a wide variety of global and public issues, from the arts and business to immigration and race to poetry and politics.
This new investigation of the Brandenburg Concertos explores musical, social, and religious implications of Bach's treatment of eighteenth-century musical hierarchies.
Anhand unterschiedlicher Fallbeispiele zeigen die Beiträge dieses Bandes, dass Werke der Literatur und Musik in konkreten lebensweltlichen oder diskursiven Kontexten verortet werden, die durchaus zielbewusst der Standortbestimmung von Autor und Werk dienen.
The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs.
Here we see a panorama of Protestant religious thought and controversy as reflected in the creation, the development, and sometimes the demise of church-related liberal arts colleges and denominational theological seminaries.
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair explores the ways in which music was used, appropriated, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the six months of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, therebyrevealing the role and the sociopolitical uses of music in France and, more generally, Europe during the late nineteenth century.
Although African scholars have made a significant contribution to the study of African Pentecostalism, very few studies have reflected on their output.
For most of the last century, popular and scholarly common sense has equated American evangelicalism with across-the-board social, economic, and political conservatism.
Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into debates about music's role in society.
Ein dröhnendes, einsames Geräusch, das in die Weiten des Meeres hinaushallt: Als Jennifer Lucy Allan zum ersten Mal bewusst das kolossale Gebrüll des Nebelhorns hört, ist dies der Beginn einer Obsession und einer Reise tief in die Geschichte eines Klangs, der die Identität von Küstenlandschaften auf der ganzen Welt von Schottland bis San Francisco geprägt hat.
This is the first of three books that cover all of the Sundays in the lectionary year, as well as special days such as Christmas, Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, and Ascension Day.
Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares Moravian economic practice in three different mission-settings, to demonstrate how Moravian practices evolved during the 18th century as part of a globalizing world and economy.
A bold application of the concept of "e;canonical"e; works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
