Research On Religion

Posts Tagged ‘sermons’

Sean Scott on Religious Rhetoric in the US Civil War

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Calvin Fletcher, Christian manhood, civil war, Copperheads, Exodus, Mennonites, New Church Movement, Old Northwest, patriotism, Providence, Quakers, sermons, Steven Woodworth, Summer Thanksgiving

As we are months away from the sesquicentennial mark of the end of the US Civil War, we devote this week’s discussion to the use of religious rhetoric in the War Between the States. Prof. Sean Scott, a historian of the Civil War era, covers the use of spiritual language in the various writings of “common folk” in “The Old Northwest” (i.e. Great Lake states and Iowa).

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Melissa Matthes on Sermons after Tragedies

Tags: assassinations, civic education, forgiveness, funerals, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, mourning, Pearl Harbor, political theology, Reinhold Neibuhr, September 11, sermons, World War I, World War II

With the 12th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks upon us, we examine how clergy respond to national tragedies in their sermons. Prof. Melissa Matthes — associate professor at the US Coast Guard Academy — talks about a research project she is conducting that involves reading hundreds of sermons from a variety of priests and pastors following such tragic events as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the JFK and MLK assassinations, and the events of 9/11/01. We explore the content of these sermons and how they have changed over time.

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