ISBN duplicates Peter Cassel & Iowa's New Sweden, edited by H. Arnold Barton ; Chicago, Illinois : Swedish-American Historical Society, 1995.
Accompanying CD features performances by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and the Olle i Skratthult Project ; William Beckstrand and Erika Ternes.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Glenn R. Palmberg -- Cultural and religious life in Swedish America. Four versions of Swedish America / Dag Blanck and Thomas Treadway -- Going forward from behind : "A real pastor's wife" / Ann Boaden --Glimpses of hope : a Swedish Lutheran academy in Moorhead, Minnesota / Joy Lintelman -- Herrens sång i främmande land (Ps. 137:4): the hymnography of Daniel S. Sörlin, Swedish Methodist immigrant / Carol M. Norén -- Jenny Lind and New York: The nightingale, the showman, and the making of a celebrity / Anita Olson Gustafson -- Swedish emigrant songs: Guds lilla barnaskara on Snoose Boulevard / Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey --Wilderness and faith. As rivers flow from a distant spring / David Bjorlin and William Beckstrand -- Spiritual dimensions in the wilderness writings of Howard Zahniser / Kevin Proescholdt -- Christianity and the preservation of the wild in Wendell Berry / John E. Phelan, Jr. -- In search of greener pastures : forming church leaders for the Anthropocene / James Amadon -- Lutheran Pietist and Covenant church history. C.O. Rosenius and the reading culture of the Mission Friends / Mark Safstrom -- The conventicle as a space of renewal and justice / Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom -- The communion theology of the early Mission Friends in the United States / David Bjorlin -- Pastoral theology and education in the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden / Rune W. Dahlén -- Faithful belonging and the soul of the Covenant Church / Scott Erickson -- Covenant identity and the politics of abortion, 1971-2004 / Mark Tao -- The 1992 LA crisis as an accelerant for change in the Evangelical Covenant Church / Hauna Ondrey -- Heritage as gift and task / C. John Weborg -- Bibliography of the published writings of Philip J. Anderson / Stephen R. Spencer