Title: I sing for I cannot be silent
First published: 1997
Description: Evangelical hymns constituted a cherished part of communal Christian life and served as an important and effective way to teach doctrine. These hymns - the focus of "I Sing for I Cannot Be Silent" - served an additional social purpose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: they gave evangelical women a voice in their churches. Drawing upon her own experience as a Baptist, June Hadden Hobbs shows how women utilized the only oral communication allowed to them in public worship.

In this engaging study, Hobbs employs an interdisciplinary mix of feminist literary analysis, social history, rhetoric and composition theory, hymnology, autobiography, and theology to examine hymns central to worship in most evangelical churches today.
Subjects: Church history, English Hymns, History, History and criticism, Hymns, English, Women hymn writers, Kirchenlied, Frau, Hymns, history and criticism, Women composers, United states, church history, United states, church history, 20th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: BV313 .H63 1997