Saturday, October 13th

8:00-8:15 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Room: Opus II Foyer

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

SESSION VIII

Room: Opus II

SERMONS ON HUMAN WELFARE AND CHARITABLE CAUSES

Chair: William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University

“Preachers and the Foundling Hospital Chapel: ‘There but for the grace of God go I’”

Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma

“Samuel Johnson’s Charity Sermon for Henry Hervey Aston in St. Paul’s Cathedral, May 23, 1745”

Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin, Madison

10:00-10:30 AM

COFFEE BREAK

Room: Opus II Foyer

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

SESSION IX

THE GENRES OF THE SERMON, PART II

Room: Opus II

Chair: Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma

“Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, the American Context, and Popular Yiddish-Language Preaching”

Matthew Brittingham, Emory University

“Islamophobia in African American Revolutionary Theologizing and Antebellum Sermonizing”

John Saillant, Western Michigan University

12:00-1:00 PM

LUNCH

Room: Aroma

1:00-2:30 PM

SESSION X

PLENARY SESSION

Room: Opus II

Chair: Robert Ellison, Director, Center for Sermon Studies, Marshall University

“The Engines of Tyranny? The Court Sermons of James II, 1685-1688”

William Gibson, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Oxford Brookes University

2:30-4:00 PM

SESSION XI

Room: Opus II

THE SERMON AND MORAL INSTRUCTION

Chair: Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Evoking Religious Submission to God, Fragmenting of Moral Discourse: Sermon of Luqman

to His Son Mentioned in Holy Quran”

Farhat Nisar, Comsats University, Islamabad

“Sermonizing the Great Tyne Flood of 1771: Responding to Disaster with Vested Interest”

Kyle Robinson, Western State Colorado University

4:00-4:30 PM

COFFEE BREAK

Room: Opus II Foyer

4:30-5:30 PM

SESSION XII

Room: Opus II

THE SERMON IN TIMES OF WAR

Chair: Hannah Yip, University of Birmingham

“Showing Tolerance While in Supremacy and Power (Commentary on the Sermon of the Prophet during Conquest of Mecca)”

Arshad Munir, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan

“An Analytical Study of Holy Prophet Muhammad’s Sermons Delivered on the Occasions of War”

Zia ur Rehman, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan

5:30-6:30 PM

SESSION XIII

Room: Opus II

PLENARY SESSION

Chair: Keith A. Francis, Arete Events Services

“The Latest Research in Sermon Studies” (What’s Going on in the Field?)

Robert Ellison, Director, Center for Sermon Studies, Marshall University

Comment: Audience

7:30-9:00 PM

CONFERENCE DINNER

Room: Vivaldi