This volume explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious
speeches through an analysis of Christian and Islamic sermons and
preachers in the past and present. Part I focuses on the explicit
contribution of sermons in socio-cultural transformation processes.
It shows how the sermons’ connection to holy texts and religious
norms of the specific group results in a tense relationship between
preaching and the respective socio-cultural present. Part II
intensifies this observation, analysing the dynamic tension between
normativity and popularity. Rather than juxtaposing normative
stances and 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 relevance
of the ritual embeddedness of religious speech for the sermon as a
catalyst of social dynamics and as a hybrid of normativity and
popularity. It shows how speech and rituals are situated in a
reciprocal relationship, where the performance of the speech, its
own ritual character, and its positioning within religious practice
must be individually examined.
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