Title A new history of the sermon : the nineteenth century / edited by Robert Ellison

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 571 pages) : illustrations Series A new history of the sermon ; 5 New history of the sermon ; v. 5. Contents 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 / 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 / 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 / Robert H. Ellison -- Carol Poster -- Thomas H. Olbricht -- Bob Tennant -- John Wolffe -- Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen -- Miriam Elizabeth Burstein -- Keith A. Francis -- Tamara S. Wagner -- Thomas J. Carmody -- Dorothy Lander -- David M. Timmerman -- Joseph Evans -- Mirela Saim -- Brian Jackson -- Dawn Coleman Summary 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 ac Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-565) and index Notes Print version record Subject Preaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Preaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century Sermons, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism Sermons, American -- 19th century -- History and criticism RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Preaching. Preaching Sermons, American Sermons, English Predigt Great Britain United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Ellison, Robert H., 1967- ISBN 9789004189461 9004189467

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