Exploring sacred song as an integral element of religious culture in America.
Stephen A. Marini is Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies and a professor of American religion and ethics at Wellesley College. He is the author of Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England.
ADVANCE PRAISE "This unusually fine and important book has no parallel. I know of no other book on American religious music with as wide a sweep. As a historian of American religion, and as a student and practitioner of sacred music, Marini is simply and utterly unique." -- Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and the author of The Secular City and Fire from Heaven "Enlightening, well informed, and sophisticated. I know of nothing like it." -- Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History
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