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 (468)

Michael R Gladwin 1
  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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