A Critique of Mahmoud Fotouhi's Image Rhetoric by Fatemeh Modarresi, Hadi Tite

“…Among contemporaries, Nader Naderpour and Yadullah Royaei have given more importance to the image than others.Royaei clearly declares in the book ‘from the Red Platform’ that “a poem is not a poem if it does not have an image, it is an admonition, and a sermon, what we call an image today, was called a fantasy in the past. …”
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Book Reviews by Lars-Göran Alm, Bim Berglund, David Börjesson, Göran Eidevall, Anders Ekenberg, Torleif Elgvin, LarsOlov Eriksson, Tord Fornberg, Stefan Green, Jonas Holmstrand, Tobias Hägerland, Mikael Larsson, Hans Leander, Tobias Månsson, Jennifer Nyström, Stig Norin, Birger Olsson, Magnus Ottosson, Anders Runesson, Blaženka Scheuer, James Starr, Hanna Stenström, Samuel Svensson, David Svärd, Mathias Sånglöf, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Martin Wessbrandt

“…Zur lukanischen Verwendung eines literarischen Topos in Apostelgeschichte 27,1–28,6 (Tord Fornberg) Christopher L. Carter, The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians: Towards a Pauline Theology of Material Possessions (Tobias Hägerland)  David W. …”
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Domestication Strategies in the Poem "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season" Based on Lotman's Theory by Akbar Shayanseresht, Zahra Khoshamen

“…This poem is written in five different sections: "The Burial of the Dead", "A Game of Chess", "Fire Sermon", "Death by Water" and "What the Thunder Says".Forugh Farrokhzad (1934-1967) was one of the influential contemporary poets. …”
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Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics by Christopher Anzalone

“…The book includes useful glossaries of key individuals and Arabic terms referenced in the text as well as a translation of a sermon by the late, revered Salafi scholar Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani that is part of the mainstream Salafi canon. …”
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Preaching to Social Media: Turkey’s Friday and Their Effects on Twitter by Ozan Aksoy

“…The author analyzes through unsupervised machine learning the content of all Friday khutbas (sermons) read to millions of citizens in thousands of mosques in Turkey between 2015 and 2021. …”
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Definitions and Roles Attributed to Muslim Identity by Digital Salafi Preachers by Mevlüt Uğurlu

“…The research includes the sermons of six different Salafi preachers, and these sermons give an idea about the basic principles, beliefs and interpretations of Salafi thought in Türkiye. …”
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A community of excellence by bin Mohammad Suhaini, M

“…These results are typical of sermons written by an official religious body. Further, the frames used by the sermons to discuss the Singaporean Muslim identity and radicalism overlap with the frames utilised by the state. …”

Najwyżej zatwierdzone rozporządzenie Komitetu Ministrów „W sprawie trybu cenzurowania rękopisów kazań wygłaszanych w kościołach rzymskokatolickich” jako instrument kontroli Kościoł... by Anton Huz

“… THE HIGHEST APPROVED REGULATION OF THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS “ON THE PROCEDURE FOR CENSORING MANUSCRIPTS OF SERMONS PREACHED IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES” AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CONTROL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE This article attempts to trace the Russian imperial policy towards the Roman Catholic Church through the lens of a normative and legal document from the times of the Russian Empire – the Highest Approved Regulation of the Committee of Ministers “On the procedure for censoring manuscripts of sermons preached in Roman Catholic churches”. …”
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Less Known Iconography of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in the Prague Loreto in Connection with the Teaching of St Lawrence of Brindisi by Marie Vymazalová

“…The text describes and contextualises collections of sermons by Lawrence of Brindisi about the Virgin Mary called Mariale, mainly the sermons about the teachings of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. …”
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‘And so it is licly to men’: Probabilism and hermeneutics in Wycliffite discourse by Ghosh, K

“…The Latin sermons of John Wyclif (d.1384), as also the long English cycle of 294 sermons by his followers drawing on his Latin work, show a pervasive, and surprising, use of the labile and contentious medieval discourses related to probable reasoning. …”

Magisterial authority, heresy and lay questioning in early fifteenth-century Oxford by Ghosh, K

“…A group of Latin-English macaronic sermons from the early fifteenth century collected together in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 649 offers suggestive insights into contemporary perceptions of Oxford University and of the compromised authority of its theological magisterium in the aftermath of the Wycliffite controversies in which the university had been fundamentally implicated. …”

Kazania Fabiana Birkowskiego na pogrzebach kawalerów maltańskich by Paweł Wita

“…The thesis portrays an ideal of a Knight of Malta depicted by Fabian Birkowski (1566–1636) in two funeral sermons entitled “Kawaler maltański” and “Krzyż kawalerski”. …”
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Augustins Predigten: “Dokumente prallen Lebens”. Animation zu frischer Lektüre by H. R. Drobner

“…Drobner particularly emphasizes the importance of these sermons as a historical and theological source on the history of the Church in the early 5th century.…”
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Studenti e maestri sotto la lente dei predicatori: il XIII secolo come spartiacque by Antonio Marson Franchini

“…A wide variety of sources have been employed, primarily the omiletic ones, in the form of sermones ad status, and others that have originated in a laic environment. …”
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"Truth" is a divine name : hitherto unpublished papers of Edward A. Synan, 1918-1997 / by 522336 Synan, Edward A., Schultz, Janice L., 1945-

The impact of local language on public understanding of religious messages by Hamidah, Masyhur Dungcik

“…We conclude that local-language sermons can effectively convey religious messages and improve audiences' understanding.…”
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Preaching Muslim Loyalty in France: Rhetoric and Counter-Discourse by Abdessamad Belhaj

“…This paper analyzes online sermons on Muslim loyalty to non-Muslims uttered by Tareq Oubrou, one of the most prominent Muslim religious authorities in France. …”
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“Sermo eorum sicut cancer serpit”. Chromatius of Aquileia against heresies by Miran Sajovic

“…As shown in some of the Chromatius’ sermons, which are unearthed in the 20th century, he opposed not only to the ideas of Arians but also to the teaching of Fotinus, bishop of Sirmium. …”
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Güssingi glosszák: ismeretlen magyar glosszák egy 15. századi sermonariumban by Tóth, P

“…Manuscript I/33 of the Franciscan Monastery of Güssing (Austria) is a typical Late Medieval collection of sermons. Copied around the early/mid-15th century, the manuscript contains Latin sermons for Sundays and other ecclesiastical feasts. …”

Taha Hussein and Ihsan Abbas's points of view on Nahj al-Balaghah and their criticism by علی خانی, أمیر فرهنگ نیا

“… Nahj al-Balaghah, as a religious book and an important source for the Shiites, was not a collection of sermons, letters, sermons, wisdom and etiquette of Imam Ali (A) - which was collected by Sharif al-Radi and named it with this title - far from the doubts of the skeptics about its validity and the suspicions of those who doubted about its authenticity and the validity of its authority and its sources. …”
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