Cleanliness . . . and an early application of medicine and medical skill . . . were supposed to be specifics against the contagion. And to a certain extent there is some truth in these views; and i t is thus that God enforces on us, by his great and invariable laws of health, the necessity of attention to these sanitary measures. But, pushing that truth too fix, men began to map out the geograp...

The author analyzes through unsupervised machine learning the content of all Friday khutbas (sermons) read to millions citizens in thousands mosques Turkey between 2015 and 2021. focuses on six nonreligious recurrent topics that feature sermons, namely, business, family, nationalism, health, trust, patience. demonstrates sermons responds strongly events national political importance. then links...

Abstract The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (D?T?B) runs more than 900 mosques in Germany and circulates Friday sermons these mosques. Our analysis provides a nuanced depiction of the link to homeland by conducting qualitative quantitative content analyses 481 from 2011 2019. To what extent are relations with Turkey reflected sermons? And how is concept “home” those While homeland-...

This article examines the challenges posed by combining categories of religion and emotion in historical studies. It analyses two major ways framing this: religious emotions religion. By taking sermons as a case study, both practice genre source, an approach that retains useful elements each is developed. At same time, explores potentials source for history emotions, noting important consequenc...

ions and then identifying them with some genuinely great image of our experiences reaches an appalling climax . . . [the novel’s main theme] is hammered home over and over again, to the almost complete destruction of the novel’s life, in endless sermons by innumerable wise men. (44)