Amazing Grace at 250: Global Heritage and Contested Legacies [Hardcover]

Faiths Review and Expectation??Foreword? Introduction? Part One: Global Heritage??1. The Enduring Textual Power of Amazing Grace: John Newtons Hymn as Exemplary Devotional Verse??2. What is so Amazing about Grace? Amazing Grace in the Contexts of Eighteenth-Century Theology and Hymnody?3. Awaiting Grace: A Hymn Comes Home?4. From Amazing Grace to Preciosa Gra?a: Transnational Echoes of a Protestant Hymn??5. Amazing Grace and New Britain Beyond the Anglophone World: German Paraphrases and New Texts, 1971-2023??6. Recontextualizing Amazing Grace in Hong Kong: Its Social and Pastoral Meanings??Part Two: Music and Musicians??7. How Sweet the Sound: Amazing Grace and the Eventual Ubiquity of New Britain?8. Amazing Grace, Aretha and the Transcendent? 9. Retuning Amazing Grace??10. Amazing Affordances: Revealing the idiomaticity of the harmonica through a classic hymn??Part Three: Contested Legacies??11. Now I See: Discussing blindness in hymnody??12. Amazing Grace for Lawyers: lessons from the first 250 years??13. Through many dangers: Amazing Grace as an act of congregational care during crisis??14. Amazing Grace in Virtual Space: Two Pandemic Performances on YouTube? 15. The Making of Forever? A Poets Practice-Steeped Reflection

This volume brings together historians, theologians, literary scholars and musicologists to shed new light on the ways in which Amazing Graces lyrics, familiar musical setting and performance by leading vocalists contribute to its enduring popularity and the meanings and value ascribed to it by diverse communities across time and place.?

This book focuses on arguably the best-known Christian hymn worldwide. From the slave trade to the civil rights movement and from obscurity in its country of origin to global recognition, the origins, history, influence, and legacy of Amazing Grace are uniquelyl#,