"Preaching has been central to Muslim communities throughout the centuries. The liturgical Friday sermon is a prime example, although other genres that are less commonly known also serve important functions. This book addresses the ways in which Muslims relate various forms of religious oratory to a
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uthoritative tradition in 21st-century Islamic practice, while striving to adapt to local contexts and the changing circumstances of politics, media and society. This is the first book of its kind to look at homiletics beyond a specific country focus. Taking into consideration the historical developments of Muslim preaching, it offers a collection of thoroughly contextualised case studies of oratory in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Sweden and the USA. The analyses presented here show shared emphasis on struggles for legitimacy, efforts to speak authoritatively, as well as discursive opportunities and constraints." (Publisher description)
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"Die Homiletik ist ein Schlüsselfach der Theologie. Im Dialog mit allen anderen theologischen Disziplinen sowie mit den benachbarten Human- und Geisteswissenschaften entwickelt sie Kriterien für eine zeitgenössische Kultur der Predigt. Unter Einbeziehung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse legt Wilfri
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ed Engemann in dieser Neuauflage seines Standardwerks die Voraussetzungen, Argumente, Modelle und Perspektiven der Homiletik leichtverständlich dar. Darüber hinaus werden klassische und neuere Formen der Predigtanalyse vorgestellt. Empirische Problemskizzen, zahlreiche Abbildungen und praktische Anleitungen sorgen für hohe Anschaulichkeit." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Preaching Islamic Renewal examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, one of Egypt's most beloved and successful Islamic preachers. His wildly popular TV program aired every Friday for years until his death in 1998. At the height of his career, it was estimated that up to 30 million
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people tuned in to his show each week. Yet despite his pervasive and continued influence in Egypt and the wider Muslim world, Sha‘rawi was for a long time neglected by academics. While much of the academic literature that focuses on Islam in modern Egypt repeats the claim that traditionally trained Muslim scholars suffered the loss of religious authority, Sha‘rawi is instead an example of a well-trained Sunni scholar who became a national media sensation. As an advisor to the rulers of Egypt as well as the first Arab television preacher, he was one of the most important and controversial religious figures in late-twentieth-century Egypt. Thanks to the repurposing of his videos on television and on the Internet, Sha‘rawi’s performances are still regularly viewed. Jacquelene Brinton uses Sha‘rawi and his work as a lens to explore how traditional Muslim authorities have used various media to put forth a unique vision of how Islam can be renewed and revived in the contemporary world. Through his weekly television appearances he popularized long held theological and ethical beliefs and became a scholar-celebrity who impacted social and political life in Egypt." (Back cover)
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"An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind shows how sermon tapes have provided one of the means by which Islamic ethical traditions have be
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en recalibrated to a modern political and technological order - to its noise and forms of pleasure and boredom, but also to its political incitements and call for citizen participation. Contrary to the belief that Islamic cassette sermons are a tool of militant indoctrination, Hirschkind argues that sermon tapes serve as an instrument of ethical self-improvement and as a vehicle for honing the sensibilities and affects of pious living. Focusing on Cairo's popular neighborhoods, Hirschkind highlights the pivotal role these tapes now play in an expanding arena of Islamic argumentation and debate - what he calls an "Islamic counterpublic." This emerging arena connects Islamic traditions of ethical discipline to practices of deliberation about the common good, the duties of Muslims as national citizens, and the challenges faced by diverse Muslim communities around the globe." (Publisher description)
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"Der erste Teil (Seite 15-96) unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme in drei Abschnitten: einem historischen Abriss kirchlicher Verkündigung im Hörfunk folgt seine Einordnung in den Kontext kirchlicher Verlautbarungen; dieser wiederum ein Forschungsbericht zur rundfunkhomiletischen Diskussion von 1945-1
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994. Der zweite Teil (Seite 97-165) beschäftigt sich mit "den Bedingungen religiöser Rede in einer mediengeprägten pluralistischen Gesellschaft". Der dritte Teil ist ein systematischer Entwurf einer künftigen Rundfunkhomiletik (Seite 167-222)." (commbox)
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