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Zusatztext the contributors have succeeded in demonstrating how an apparently commonplace and ephemeral aspect of the social and religious culture of Britain offers important insights into how that culture understood its own purposes and place in the world. Informationen zum Autor Keith Francis is a historian of religion in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is particularly interested in the development of the biological sciences and their impact on nineteenth-century Christianity. He is the Executive Secretary of the American Society of Church History and a visiting research fellow at Oxford Brookes University.William Gibson is a historian of religion in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has written widely on the Church of England in this period and is particularly interested in its role in politics and the emergence of an enlightenment culture. He is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. He is co-editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies and reviews editor of Archives (the journal of the British Records Association). In 2011 he was visiting research fellow at Yale University. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Association and of the Royal Society of Arts. Klappentext This Handbook accesses historical, theological, rhetorical, literary and linguistic studies to demonstrate the interdisciplinary strength of the field of sermon studies and to show the centrality of sermons to private and public life in this 'golden age' of the British sermon. Zusammenfassung The period 1689-1901 was 'the golden age' of the sermon in Britain. It was the best selling printed work and dominated the print trade until the mid-nineteenth century. Sermons were highly influential in religious and spiritual matters, but they also played important roles in elections and politics, science and ideas and campaigns for reform. Sermons touched the lives of ordinary people and formed a dominant part of their lives. Preachers attracted huge crowds and the popular demand for sermons was never higher. Sermons were also taken by missionaries and clergy across the British empire, so that preaching was integral to the process of imperialism and shaped the emerging colonies and dominions. The form that sermons took varied widely, and this enabled preaching to be adopted and shaped by every denomination, so that in this period most religious groups could lay claim to a sermon style. The pulpit naturally lent itself to controversy, and consequently sermons lay at the heart of numerous religious arguments.Drawing on the latest research by leading sermon scholars, this handbook accesses historical, theological, rhetorical, literary and linguistic studies to demonstrate the interdisciplinary strength of the field of sermon studies and to show the centrality of sermons to religious life in this period. Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Introductory Essays 1: William Gibson: The British Sermon 1689-1901: Quantities, Performance, and Culture 2: Keith A. Francis: Sermons: Themes and Developments II: Sermons: Communities, Cultures and Communication 3: Jeffrey S. Chamberlain: Parish Preaching in the Long Eighteenth Century 4: Frances Knight: Parish Preaching in the Victorian Era: The Village Sermon 5: Martin Hewitt: Preaching from the platform 6: Michael Graves: The British Quaker Sermon, 1689-1901 7: Bob Tennant: The Sermons of the Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals 8: Geoffrey Scott: Sermons in British Catholicism to the Restoration of the Hierarchy 9: Ann Matheson: Preaching in the Churches of Scotland 10: Irene Whelan: The Sermon and Political Controversy in Ireland, 1800-1850 11: John Morgan-Guy: Sermons in Wales in the Established Church 12: D. Densil Morgan: Preaching in the Vernacular: the Welsh sermon, 1689-1901 13: Andrew Pink: Order a...
