“Lift Up a Living Nation”: Community and Nation, Socialism and Religion in The English Hymnal, 1906
(2017)
Journal Article
Palmer Heathman, K. (2017). “Lift Up a Living Nation”: Community and Nation, Socialism and Religion in The English Hymnal, 1906. Cultural and Social History, 14(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2017.1290995
The lead editors of The English Hymnal (1906), Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams, found Victorian hymnody in need of serious revision, and not just aesthetically. This musical book was intended as an expression of the editors' Christian social... Read More about “Lift Up a Living Nation”: Community and Nation, Socialism and Religion in The English Hymnal, 1906.