News: Reflections by Becca Whitla on the 2026 conference
Becca Whitla, who delivered a keynote lecture at the 2026 conference in Strasbourg, has written a blog post about the conference and her lecture about decolonising congregational singing. Her reflections are available on the blog of the Centre for Congregational Song, provided by our sister organisation, the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada.
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Hymnology is the scholarly engagement with the church’s song, hymns, and hymnbooks. To engage with the diverse aspects of these subjects, hymnology uses the methods of related academic disciplines, including theology (with its subdisciplines), music and church music, history, literature, linguistics, culture studies, bibliography, aesthetics and poetics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Hymnological studies can be empirical, historical, or systematic.
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