Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching

By: Ruth Conrad, Roland Hardenberg, Hanna Miethner, and Max Stille

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Synopsis: Christian and Islamic sermons from past and present, and their preachers, are analyzed to reveal the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches.Part I focuses on the explicit contribution of sermons in socio-cultural transformation processes. It shows how sermons connect with holy texts, religious norms of the specific group, and social-cultural contexts.Part II analyzes the dynamic tension between normativity and popularity. Rather than juxtaposing normative stances and the popularity of sermons, it shows how that normativity can itself contribute to popularity and the quest of popularity carries its own normative stances.Part III explores the ritual embeddedness of religious speech in the sermon in relation to social dynamics, normativity, and popularity, and shows how speech and rituals have a reciprocal relationship.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781350408869
Related ISBNs:: 9781350408845
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:: 12/13/23
Copyrighted By:: Ruth Conrad, Roland Hardenberg, Hanna Miethner, Max Stille, and contributors
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ruth Conrad
Edited by:: Roland Hardenberg
Edited by:: Hanna Miethner
Edited by:: Max Stille