Edith L. Blumhofer

Edith Lydia Waldvogel Blumhofer (April 24, 1950 – March 5, 2020)[1] was a historian of American religious history.

Blumhofer did undergraduate and masters studies at Hunter College and got her doctorate at Harvard University. Her scholarship focused on hymnody, Pentecostalism and the history of American revivalism. She wrote biographies of Aimee Semple McPherson and Fanny J. Crosby.

Publications

Select works:[2]

  • Aimee Semple McPherson : everybody's sister, 1993
  • Restoring the faith : the Assemblies of God, pentecostalism, and American culture, 1993
  • Pentecostal currents in American Protestantism, 1999
  • Her heart can see : the life and hymns of Fanny J. Crosby, 2005

References
  1. Hultgren Funeral Home: Edith Lydia Blumhofer
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85180435/


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