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sermon

vr.tr.sermon · XCT.STA

Let an agent explain sermons and their forms across traditions with attribution, describe homiletics and rhetorical structure, support historical and literary study, and avoid composing or endorsing religious teaching as its own.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain sermons and their forms across traditions with attribution, describe homiletics and rhetorical structure, support historical and literary study, and avoid composing or endorsing religious teaching as its own.

A religious discourse delivered to a congregation or audience by a preacher, teacher or leader, expounding scripture, doctrine or moral teaching, including Christian sermons and homilies, funeral and marriage sermons, Buddhist Dharma talks, Japanese pictorial preaching known as etoki, and sermons in other traditions, often preserved as notes and texts; sermons are a genre of oratory and literature and are studied in homiletics, religious studies and rhetoric, and are described here with attribution to their traditions.

What it is for: Religious discourses to congregations.

It can be explain forms with attribution; describe structure and homiletics; support study; avoid endorsement.

Distinguishing features

Religious content

Congregational setting

Rhetorical form

Tradition-specific

What it looks like

Not physical; spoken and written discourses.

How it is recognised

Religious discourse to a congregation

Christian, Buddhist and other forms

A lecture is secular; a prayer addresses the divine; a speech may be political

Related models

is a kind of - category

discourse

is related to - preachers

clergy

is related to - religious instruction

teaching

is related to - sermons in literary tradition

verse

In practice

Families and kinds

Christian sermons and homilies

occasional sermons such as funeral and marriage sermons

Buddhist Dharma talks

Islamic khutbah and Jewish drasha

pictorial and performative preaching such as etoki

Standards and regulation

Religious norms on preaching

Laws on hate speech applicable to any discourse

Academic standards in homiletics

Failure modes and hazards

Composing sermons that endorse a position as the agent own

Disrespectful presentation

Conflating traditions

Also called

sermon notesfuneral sermonmarriage sermone-tokiDharma talkChristian sermonhomilyJewish sermonchangdaoRedemptive-Historical PreachingHagenpreeklion's roarparodic sermonkhutbahSermones (Pseudo)-Bonifatiiteishōkhutbah wukuf

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.sermon

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What sermons are.

Attribution.

Forms

Forms across traditions.

Forms

Forms.

  1. What forms do sermons take in Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, Jewish and other traditions, in their own terms? provenance
  2. Is the presentation attributed and respectful? boundary

Structure

Structure and rhetoric.

Structure

Structure.

  1. How are sermons structured rhetorically, and what does homiletics teach about preparation and delivery? provenance
  2. Which entry fits rhetoric? action
Study Historical and literary study.

Scholarship.

History

History of preaching.

History

History.

  1. How has preaching developed historically, and which sermons are historically or literarily notable? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific preacher? action

Archives

Sermon texts and notes.

Archives

Archives.

  1. How are sermons preserved as notes and texts, and where are collections held? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Practice Preaching practice.

Boundaries.

Preparation

Preparation within a tradition.

Preparation

Preparation.

  1. How do preachers within a tradition prepare sermons, and what resources do they use? provenance
  2. Is the request asking the agent to author religious teaching as its own position, which it should not do? boundary

Occasions

Occasional sermons.

Occasions

Occasions.

  1. How do funeral, marriage and festival sermons differ in purpose and form? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific rite? action
Learn Teaching.

Education.

Teach

Teaching about sermons.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can sermons be taught as a genre in religious studies and literature? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

Performative

Performative preaching.

Performative

Performative.

  1. What are pictorial and performative preaching traditions such as etoki? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific tradition? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each tradition form be a separate entry?
  • How should sermon archives be linked?
  • How should homiletics resources be linked?
Draft as JSON