Ethnodoxology

Multilingual Song Collections

Collections of Songs:

Cantate Domino
World’s Student Christian Federation (1924–1963)
World Council of Churches (1973–1980)

1st ed. (1924, 64 songs)
2nd ed. (1930, 82 songs)
3rd ed. (1938, 95 songs)
4th ed. (1943)
5th ed. (1947, 95 songs)
[New ed.] (1951, 120 songs)
[New ed.] (1963, 120 songs)
Melody ed. (1973) / Full Music ed. (1980)

E.A.C.C. Hymnal
East Asia Christian Conference

1st ed. (Kyoto, 1963)
Corrected (1964)
3rd ed. (1968)

New Songs of Asian Cities (1972)
East Asia Christian Conference

C.C.A. Hymnal (1974)
Christian Conference of Asia

Hymnal Supplement I (1981)
Hymnal Supplement II (1985)
Hymnal Supplement III (1988)

Hymns from the Four Winds (1983)
United Methodist Church

Sound the Bamboo
Christian Conference of Asia

Trial ed. (1990)
Rev. & Enl. (2000)
Hymnal Companion (2011)

Many and Great: Songs of the World Church, ed. John L. Bell (Chicago: GIA, [1990] 1992)

Sent by the Lord: Songs of the World Church, ed. John L. Bell (Chicago: GIA, [1991] 1992)

World Praise (1993 / 1995)
Jubilate / World Baptist Convention

Bread for the Journey

Global Songs, Local Voices (1994) CD/songbook
Global Songs 2 (1997) CD/songbook
Global Songs 3 (2001) CD/songbook

Thuma Mina: International Ecumenical Hymnbook, eds. Dieter Trautwein, Beatrice Aebi, Johanna Linz, Dietrich Werner (Basel: Basileia Verlag, 1995)

Global Praise (GBGMusik)

No. 1 (1996) with CD
No. 2 (2000) with CD
No. 3 (2004) with CD
Companion to Songbooks 1 & 2 (2005)

Hela världen sjunger, ed. Per Harling (Uppsala: Verbum Musik, 1997)

Halle, Halle: We Sing the World Round, ed. C.M. Hawn (Choristers Guild, 1999) Singer’s Ed. | Teacher’s Ed. | CD

World Praise 2 (LifeWay, 2000)

Agape: Songs of Hope and Reconciliation, comp. Maggie Hamilton & Päivi Jussila (Oxford: University Press, 2003)

Oramos Cantando / We Pray in Song (93 pages, 2005) with CD

In Every Corner Sing: Songs from God’s World (RSCM, 2008) with CD

For Everyone Born: Global Songs for an Emerging Church (UMC, 2008)

Sing with the World: Global Songs for Children, eds. John L. Bell & Alison Adam (Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2008)

Put Your Arms Around the World (UMC, 2009) with CD

Global Songs for Worship (Faith Alive, 2010) with CD

Oramos Cantando / We Pray in Song (GIA, 2013) [Bilingual hymnal]

Hallelujah! Resources for Prayer and Praise, WCC 10th Assembly—Busan (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2014)

Let the Asian Church Rejoice (2015)

Santo, Santo, Santo / Holy, Holy, Holy (GIA, 2018) [Bilingual hymnal]

For Further Research:

C. Michael Hawn, “Sounds of Bamboo: I-to Loh and the development of Asian hymns,” The Hymn, vol. 49, no. 2 (Apr. 1998), pp. 12–24: HathiTrust

C. Michael Hawn, Gather into One: Praying and Singing Globally (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003).

Brian Schrag & Paul Neeley, All the World Will Worship: Helps for Developing Indigenous Hymns (2005).

Frank Fortunato, et al., All the World is Singing: Glorifying God Through the Worship Music of the Nations (2006).

S.T. Kimbrough Jr., ed. Music and Mission: Toward a Theology and Practice of Global Song (New York: GBGMusik, 2006).

Charles E. Farhadian, Christian Worship Worldwide: Expanding Horizons, Deepening Practices, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007).

Frank Fortunato, et. al., Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook (2013) with DVD.

I-to Loh, “Sound a mystic bamboo song: Sounds and images of Christ in Asian hymns,” The Hymn, vol. 64, no. 1 (Winter 2013), pp. 19–27: HathiTrust

C. Michael Hawn & Swee Hong Lim, “Global and ecumenical song: Through every land, by every tongue,” New Songs of Celebration Render: Congregational Song in the Twenty-first Century (Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2013), pp. 207–345.

Timothy Rice, Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: University Press, 2014).

Jacob Joseph, A Study on the Significance of Ethnodoxology Training for Worship Leaders to Accomplish the Need of Contextualization of Worship in India, dissertation (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2016).

Christopher Silas Padiath, Reconciled In Christ: An Intertextual Biblical Model for Ethnodoxology Practice in Local Church Ministry, dissertation (Louisville: SBTS, 2018): SBTS

Monique M. Ingalls, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, and Zoe C. Sherinian, eds., Making Congregational Music Local in Christian Communities Worldwide (London: Routledge, 2018).

Esther R. Crookshank, “Ethnodoxology and the church’s worship: An introduction,” Augustine Collegiate Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (Summer, 2018), 37–53.

Marissa Glynias Moore, “Appropriation or activism? Reflections on ‘global song.’” Sing! The Center for Congregational Song (January 2018): https://congregationalsong.org/appropriation-activism-reflections-global-song/

C. Michael Hawn, “Hymnody of the global south, part 1: History, ontological perspectives and dissemination,” and “Hymnody of the global south, part 2: Theological perspectives and hymns,” in Mark A. Lamport, Benjamin K. Forrest, and Vernon M. Whaley, eds., Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions, vol. 3 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2019), pp. 255–282.

Marcell Silva Steuernagel, “A tangled web: Intellectual property and Christian global song,” The Hymn, vol. 72, no. 3 (Summer 2021), pp. 34–42.

Additional Links:

Global Ethnodoxology Network: https://www.worldofworship.org/

C. Michael Hawn, “Global Hymnody,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: http://www.hymnology.co.uk/g/global-hymnody

Becca Whitla, “Postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on hymnody,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology: http://www.hymnology.co.uk/p/postcolonial-and-decolonial-perspectives-on-hymnody