This collection of papers continues in the vein initiated by two preceding volumes (Hallesche Forschungen Vols. 3 and 9) and assembles the contributions to an interdisciplinary symposium organized to mark the 300th anniversary of the Freylinghaus Hymnbook. The colloquium was devoted to the astonishingly far-reaching effects of this supremely important pietist collection of hymns, including the inter-continental significance it was to achieve.