Christian music: a global history

1. Before the church: the Jewish musical tradition

2. Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs: music and the early church

3. The church goes public: Christian music after Constantine. Music in the Orthodox Church / Ivan Moody

4. Christian chant: the core of medieval worship. "Sybil of the Rhine": Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

5. Medieval polyphony: the church discovers harmony. "Ave verum corpus"

6. The music of the Renaissance: the peaks of polyphony. The organ / Mike Wheeler

7. A safe stronghold: the music of the Lutheran Reformation. Sermons in song: the Moravians and their music ; The psalmodikon: another way of accompanying hymns

8. "In quires and places where they sing...": the making of the Anglican tradition. Oranges and lemons: the story of church bells

9. Psalms, canticles, and hymns: the genesis of Christian hymns. "Amazing grace"

10. Gloria in excelsis Deo: the making of Catholic Baroque. Christian music in Latin America: 1500-1800 / Pablo Sosa

11. Bach and Handel: two great Protestant Baroque composers

12. The Viennese tradition: liturgical and non-liturgical sacred music. Music in the Orthodox Church in Russia / Ivan Moody

13. Heights of intensity: sacred music in the age of romanticism

14. Hymns ancient and modern: the nineteenth-century hymn industry. Robbing the devil of his choicest tunes: music and the Salvation Army ; In the deep midwinter: the story of carols ; The legendary story of "Silent night"

15. Camp meetings and revivals: the making of the American gospel tradition. Christian music in Africa / J. Nathan Corbitt

16. "I got a home in dat rock...": spirituals and the blues. "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika"

17. Apocalypse now!: sacred music and the concert hall in the twentieth century. Christian music in Latin America since 1800 / Pablo Sosa

18. "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me": popular church music in the twentieth century. "How great Thou art" ; Music among Christians in south-east Asia / Michael Nai-Chiu Poon

19. "(Give me that) old time religion": gospel music in the twentieth century. Music among Christians in the Indian Subcontinent / Sugu J.M. Chandy

20. "I wish we'd all been ready": the making of the contemporary Christian music industry. Christian music in Australia and New Zealand / Mark Evans

21. "Ain't nobody nowhere nothin' without God": Christians do country, folk, and jazz. Christian music in China / Angela Tam ; Christian music of the Pacific Islands / Mark Evans.