A New History of the Sermon : The Nineteenth Century


Robert. Ellison
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Leiden : : BRILL, , 2010.
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1 online resource (585 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - A New History of the Sermon; Copyright; Contents; Permissions; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part One: Theory and Theology; The Tractarians' Sermons and Other Speeches; Richard Whately and the Didactic Sermon; The Rhetoric of Henry Ward Beecher and Frederic W. Farrar Regarding Biblical Criticism; Part Two: Sermon and Society in the British Empire; Missions, Slavery, and the Anglican Pulpit, 1780-1850; British Sermons on National Events; Catholic Preaching in Victorian England, 1801-1901; Anti-Catholic Sermons in Victorian Britain. - Nineteenth-Century British Sermons on Evolution and The Origin of Species: The Dog That Didn't Bark?The Victorian Sermon Novel: Domesticated Spirituality and the Sermon's Sensationalization; Part Three: Sermon and Society in America; The Anti-dueling Movement; The Itinerant Pulpit of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU): Teachers or Preachers?; Midway between Slavery and Citizenship: Black Freedmen in White Protestant Sermons in the Immediate Post-Civil War Period; Sacred Rhetoric and the African-American Civic Sermon. - The Modern Renewal of Jewish Homiletics and the Occurrence of Interfaith Preaching"As a Musician Would His Violin": The Oratory of the Great Basin Prophets; The Antebellum American Sermon as Lived Religion; Bibliography; Index. - This collection offers fresh perspectives on British and American preaching in the nineteenth century. Drawing on many religious traditions and addressing a host of cultural and political topics, it will appeal to scholars specializing in any number of academic fields.
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9789004185722

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