Preaching Australia: Sermons, emotion, and religious sensory practice in Australian history — Australian Historical Association annual conference hosted by The Australian National University

Preaching Australia: Sermons, emotion, and religious sensory practice in Australian history

Preaching Australia: Sermons, emotion, and religious sensory practice in Australian history (468)

Michael R Gladwin ¹

Charles Sturt University, Barton, ACT, Australia

This paper examines the dissemination and reception of sermons and preaching in Australia during the sermon’s peak years of public prominence up to the Great War. Sermons were an important part of the intellectual formation of many colonial Australians, yet this relatively neglected form of public conversation can also be understood in terms of sensory practices—oral performances or events that shed light new on the history of colonial Australian manners and emotions.

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Gladwin, M.R

Dr Michael Gladwin is Senior Lecturer in History at St Mark's National Theological Centre in the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. He is also a Research Fellow for the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre (PACT), Charles Sturt University. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Cambridge, his research interests include the religious, intellectual and cultural history of Australia and the British Empire, with a particular interest in the relationship between religion and war in Australian history. Michael is the author of Captains of the soul: a history of Australian Army chaplains (2013) and Anglican clergy in Australia, 1788-1850: building a British World (2015).

Preaching Australia: Sermons, emotion, and religious sensory practice in Australian history (468)

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