History of music

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Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War.

Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders.

Exposes the roots of 18th-century musical cosmopolitanism through an investigation of exchanges and collaborations between musicians and dancers from the two major national musical traditions in the early years of the century.

Language for God draws readers into the necessity of language and images for God that are expansive and inclusive of all genders.

How is it that some conservative groups are viscerally antigovernment even while enjoying the benefits of government funding?

Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism.

Explore how the Revised Common Lectionary enriches worshipHow does this contemporary lectionary nourish Christian faith and life?

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

In Religion and the Struggle for European Union, Brent F.

Potsdam war in der SED-Diktatur Sitz von Verwaltungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen, Standort von Militär und Staatssicherheit, aber auch von Einrichtungen der Evangelischen Kirche.

This work offers insight into the diversity, breadth, and complexity of the cultural influences that shaped Baptist identity.

One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine.

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Franz Schreker (1878–1934) gehört zu den bedeutenden Opernkomponisten der Wiener Moderne.

The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.

Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England.

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Kerygmatic Hermeneutics takes a reader at once into a concrete apprehension of God in his scriptural truth through flowing in the Spirit.

Can a Lutheran be sociopolitically radical?

Die Choralpartita BWV 1175 ist nur in Abschriften ohne Komponistennennung und nur in einem Quellenzweig überliefert.

Das evangelische Pfarrhaus genießt in der Öffentlichkeit großes Ansehen.

An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this inter-disciplinary field over recent decades.

Der Klang des Mittelalters scheint leicht zu imaginieren, denkt man etwa an die Schlachtenrufe mittelalterlicher Helden, an den liturgischen Gesang gregorianischer Choräle, den feierlichen Klang des Kirchengeläuts oder aber an die feinen Töne der Minnesänger.

Dispatches on nationalism and religionAs an insider to church politics and a scholar of contemporary Orthodoxy, Cyril Hovorun outlines forms of political orthodoxy in Orthodox churches, past and present.

For more than twenty-five years Frank Muir, in partnership with Denis Norden, produced some of the most sparkling and original comedy ever written for radio and television.

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Karl Barth (1886–1968) war der wohl fleißigste und bekannteste Theologe des 20.

Die Mezzosopranistin Andrea Schwab erinnert mit diesem Bandan elf außergewöhnliche Frauen, die in dervon zwei Weltkriegen und der Shoa geprägten Epoche von 1900–1945und darüber hinaus den Mut und die Ausdauer besaßen,ihre musikalische Begabung zu leben.

Anhand der Rekonstruktion des homiletischen Ansatzes von Gerhard Aho in seinem Kontext entsteht ein Bild der nordamerikanischen Predigtlehre mit ihrer eigenständigen Ausprägung im 20.

Von New Orleans bis ins 21.

Ty Pennington shares stories from his life and offers a behind-the-scenes look at your favorite home shows!

Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (18971973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs.

No art can survive without an understanding of, and dedication to, the values envisioned by its creators.

Melanchthon and Calvin were late medieval people, stemming from a world of order and unity, and at the same time they fully lived in the early modern world, in which everything was changing.

60 Jahre sind in der Geschichte der Kirche eine kurze Zeit.

Wurde Richard Wagners Werk für die Zwecke des Nationalsozialismus 'nur' benutzt, oder waren seine Kompositionen und Schriften mitverantwortlich für die Entwicklung dieser rassistisch-nationalistischen Ideologie?

Scott Bruzek has served the church faithfully for over three decades.

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his ';smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful' (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.

"e;Dictionary of Hammond-Organ Stops"e; is a vintage introductory guide to playing the organ, with a comprehensive translation of pipe-organ stops into Hammond-organ number-arrangements.

In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before.

In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.

Niccolò Paganini – ein Name, der bis heute mit unvergleichlicher Virtuosität, mystischen Legenden und der Faszination des Übernatürlichen verbunden ist.

With honesty, humor, and keen biblical insight, bestselling authors Bill and Beni Johnson help you discover the keys to successful parenting in God's kingdom.

Leading historical and liturgical scholars reflect on the history and impact of Book of Common Prayer, the most important liturgical text in English.