This unique collection of excerpts from Lutheran historical documents--many translated here for the first time--presents readers with a full picture of how the Lutheran movement developed in its thought and practice.
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.
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness.
En el campo de la percepción armónica, del sentido rítmico, de la producción del sonido, de la habilidad corporal o de la expresión, determinadas claves permiten tanto evitar como reparar muchas disfunciones.
Nowhere in Europe the Italian opera libretto has had such a direct and decisive influence on original national drama production as it did in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century.
In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.
This collection of 30 well-loved original compositions and arrangements for piano presents a selection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach that will delight any pianist.
This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "e;long nineteenth century.
Voll Zuversicht trat Hermann Gäbler in die Leipziger Mission ein und brachte rückhaltlos ein Vierteljahrhundert lang all seine Kraft in diese Lebensarbeit ein, an deren ungebrochenem Erfolg er zuletzt aber Zweifel hatte.
Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion's Club fund raiser.
A balanced, accessible commentary for Spirit-filled ChristiansThe Spirit who inspired the authors of the New Testament is at work today around the globe, as evidenced by the explosive growth of pentecostal, charismatic, and renewalist movements; the number of adherents is now estimated at more than half a billion.
Contradicting the widely held but false belief that all Latinos are Catholic, this book offers a concise one-volume introduction to America's Latino Protestants, the fastest growing segment of U.
The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship.
Erstmals in der Geschichte ihrer seit über fünf Jahrzehnten geführten bilateralen Dialoge zwischen Orthodoxie und Protestantismus behandeln beide Delegationen die Rolle und das Verständnis der Bilder in der Frömmigkeit beider Kirchen.
Ontario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre.
Scholars routinely describe how Martin Luther prioritized the books of the New Testament that he believed most truly represented the gospel, the Living Word of Jesus Christ.