Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

3-9-2024

Abstract

This presentation is kind of a sequel/follow-up to one I gave seven years ago in Baltimore, entitled “Four Case Studies in Teaching Sermons at a Public University.” I discussed

a gen-ed ENG class, a gen-ed class cross-listed with ENG & RST, a graduate seminar, and a class in the Honors College. The first three were one-offs, but the Honors class has lived on. I taught it again, in much the same form, the semester after that presentation, and again this past semester. The title was now “Religion and the Sermon in Appalachia” (for purposes of the online schedule, it had to be shortened to what you see on the screen). Here’s what I wrote in the course proposal:

The proposed course is both narrower and broader than the previous two. It is narrower in its geographic scope: in 2015 and 2017, we studied sermons preached throughout the United States and in some other countries; this one will deal specifically with the Appalachian region. On the other hand, it is broader in its subject matter: while the previous iterations focused almost exclusively on the sermons themselves, this one will examine them within the larger context of religious beliefs and practices in Appalachia.

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Copyright 2024 Ellison.

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