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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Clapp-Itnyre, Alisa

Titel

Editorial Choices and Lived Religion: The Reverend Mr Patrick Brontë's Sunday School Hymn Book and Hymn Sheets for Haworth Children, 1827-1835

Ist Teil von

• Brontë studies : journal of the Brontë Society, 2020-10, Vol.45 (4), p.309-322

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Based on archival research at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, this paper contributes to our growing appreciation for the Reverend Patrick Brontë's religious principles by exploring his Sunday School hymn book held at the Parsonage Museum alongside the hymn sheets for his annual Haworth Sunday School Anniversaries. I investigate not only which hymns he marked in his hymn book and later used for the Anniversary services, but also which hymns and specific stanzas he disregarded, even which stanzas he rewrote before printing. Examining Brontë as editor, I suggest the religious views he was indirectly promoting: progressive views which empowered children and highlighted heaven in the midst of death. The power of hymns through repetition and singing became a lived religion for his congregants and a source of spiritual inspiration for his own literary daughters sitting in the pews.