Max Stille
Biographic Data
| ID | 385010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Stille |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Stille |
| SIGNATURE | STILLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8191-5541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching
This volume explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches through an analysis of Christian and Islamic sermons and preachers in the past and present. Part I focuses on the explicit contribution of sermons in socio-cultural transformation processes. It shows how the sermons' connection to holy texts and religious norms of the specific group results in a tense relationship between preaching and the respective socio-cultural present. Pa…
Public piety and Islamic preaching in Bangladesh
This article proposes ways how to access emotions in Islamic preaching. Conceptually, it brings together the often-juxtaposed spheres of body and mind; nature and culture; aesthetics and religion. Based on extensive research on Islamic sermons in Bangladesh between 2012 and 2015, it stresses the form of public speech as the means to access the emotional potentials of oratory. It argues that a focus on emotions allows us to gain a deeper understan…
Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Sermons on the Love of the Prophet
Ashraf Ali Thanawi (1863–1943) was one of the most influential South Asian preachers and authors of the twentieth century. His sermons range from Friday sermons in Arabic to those held before select disciples or at mass rallies in Urdu, and they were printed ever since his lifetime in great number and consistency. This article is particularly interested in the emotional roles allotted to preacher and audience and the overlap between religious and…
Religious Emotions and Emotions in Religion: The Case of Sermons
This article examines the challenges posed by combining the categories of religion and emotion in historical studies. It analyses two major ways of framing this: religious emotion and emotions in religion. By taking sermons as a case study, both as a religious practice and a genre of historical source, an approach that retains the useful elements of each approach is developed. At the same time, the article explores the potentials of sermons as a …
Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh: The Poetics of Popular Preaching
Islamic sermon gatherings are a central form of public piety and public expression in contemporary Bangladesh. Held since the 19th century, waz mahfils became so popular that it is today possible to participate in them on a daily basis in many regions of the country. Despite their significance in the rise of popular politics, the sermons are often disregarded as Islamist propaganda and very little research is dedicated to them
Conceptual History and South Asian History
This review article provides an overview of important, recent approaches to conceptual history from scholarship on South Asia. While conceptual history is not a consolidated field in South Asia, the colonial encounter has greatly stimulated interest in conceptual inquiries. Recent scholarship questions the uniformity even of well-researched concepts such as liberalism. It is methodologically innovative in thinking about the influence of economic …
Communities of Code-Switching Connoisseurs: Multilingualism in Islamic Sermons in Bangladesh
Code-switching is a universal phenomenon of community formation. Religious speech switches between different registers and codes, expanding its possibilities. In South Asia, the pleasure of including different codes and languages is, at the same time, a characteristic of poetic messages, of popular culture and linguistic systems. This paper considers the code-switching in Islamic sermons in contemporary Bangladesh (waz mahfils), which are charact…
Emotions in performance: Poetry and preaching
Emotions are largely interpersonal and inextricably intertwined with communication; public performances evoke collective emotions. This article brings together considerations of poetic assemblies known as ‘mushāʿira’ in Pakistan with reflections on sermon congregations known as ‘waʿz mahfil’ in Bangladesh. The public performance spaces and protocols, decisive for building up collective emotions, exhibit many parallels between both genres. The cul…
Conceptualizing Compassion in Communication for Communication
This article argues that conceptual change can be brought about and shaped by communication practice by approaching emotional experience in a particular strand of Islamic sermons from contemporary Bangladesh. It utilizes an extended rhetorical analysis, pertaining to the intertwining of concepts to be communicated, concepts of communication, and performance patterns of the sermons. It argues that by the juncture of narrative techniques of immedia…
Conceptualizing Compassion in Communication for Communication: Emotional Experience in Islamic Sermons (Bengali waʿz mahfils)
This article argues that conceptual change can be brought about and shaped by communication practice by approaching emotional experience in a particular strand of Islamic sermons from contemporary Bangladesh. It utilizes an extended rhetorical analysis, pertaining to the intertwining of concepts to be communicated, concepts of communication, and performance patterns of the sermons. It argues that by the juncture of narrative techniques of immedia…
Listening Communities? Some Remarks on the Construction of Religious Authority in Islamic Podcasts
In the context of the vivid activity of Muslim individuals and groups on the Internet and the recent technological developments in the field of computer mediated communication, podcasts offering a wide range of religious information and/or advice to Muslim (and non-Muslim) listeners play an increasingly important role. Being an integral part of the Web 2.0's online landscape and presenting, at the same time, many characteristics of more "traditio…
Emotions in performance: Poetry and preaching
Emotions are largely interpersonal and inextricably intertwined with communication; public performances evoke collective emotions. This article brings together considerations of poetic assemblies known as ‘mushāʿira’ in Pakistan with reflections on sermon congregations known as ‘waʿz mahfil’ in Bangladesh. The public performance spaces and protocols, decisive for building up collective emotions, exhibit many parallels between both genres. The cul…
Conceptualizing Compassion in Communication for Communication
This article argues that conceptual change can be brought about and shaped by communication practice by approaching emotional experience in a particular strand of Islamic sermons from contemporary Bangladesh. It utilizes an extended rhetorical analysis, pertaining to the intertwining of concepts to be communicated, concepts of communication, and performance patterns of the sermons. It argues that by the juncture of narrative techniques of immedia…
Religious Emotions and Emotions in Religion: The Case of Sermons
This article examines the challenges posed by combining the categories of religion and emotion in historical studies. It analyses two major ways of framing this: religious emotion and emotions in religion. By taking sermons as a case study, both as a religious practice and a genre of historical source, an approach that retains the useful elements of each approach is developed. At the same time, the article explores the potentials of sermons as a …
Listening Communities? Some Remarks on the Construction of Religious Authority in Islamic Podcasts
In the context of the vivid activity of Muslim individuals and groups on the Internet and the recent technological developments in the field of computer mediated communication, podcasts offering a wide range of religious information and/or advice to Muslim (and non-Muslim) listeners play an increasingly important role. Being an integral part of the Web 2.0's online landscape and presenting, at the same time, many characteristics of more "traditio…
Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Sermons on the Love of the Prophet
Ashraf Ali Thanawi (1863–1943) was one of the most influential South Asian preachers and authors of the twentieth century. His sermons range from Friday sermons in Arabic to those held before select disciples or at mass rallies in Urdu, and they were printed ever since his lifetime in great number and consistency. This article is particularly interested in the emotional roles allotted to preacher and audience and the overlap between religious and…
Communities of Code-Switching Connoisseurs: Multilingualism in Islamic Sermons in Bangladesh
Code-switching is a universal phenomenon of community formation. Religious speech switches between different registers and codes, expanding its possibilities. In South Asia, the pleasure of including different codes and languages is, at the same time, a characteristic of poetic messages, of popular culture and linguistic systems. This paper considers the code-switching in Islamic sermons in contemporary Bangladesh (waz mahfils), which are charact…
Listening Communities? Some Remarks on the Construction of Religious Authority in Islamic Podcasts
In the context of the vivid activity of Muslim individuals and groups on the Internet and the recent technological developments in the field of computer mediated communication, podcasts offering a wide range of religious information and/or advice to Muslim (and non-Muslim) listeners play an increasingly important role. Being an integral part of the Web 2.0's online landscape and presenting, at the same time, many characteristics of more "traditio…
Conceptualizing Compassion in Communication for Communication
This article argues that conceptual change can be brought about and shaped by communication practice by approaching emotional experience in a particular strand of Islamic sermons from contemporary Bangladesh. It utilizes an extended rhetorical analysis, pertaining to the intertwining of concepts to be communicated, concepts of communication, and performance patterns of the sermons. It argues that by the juncture of narrative techniques of immedia…
Conceptualizing Compassion in Communication for Communication: Emotional Experience in Islamic Sermons (Bengali waʿz mahfils)
This article argues that conceptual change can be brought about and shaped by communication practice by approaching emotional experience in a particular strand of Islamic sermons from contemporary Bangladesh. It utilizes an extended rhetorical analysis, pertaining to the intertwining of concepts to be communicated, concepts of communication, and performance patterns of the sermons. It argues that by the juncture of narrative techniques of immedia…
Emotions in performance: Poetry and preaching
Emotions are largely interpersonal and inextricably intertwined with communication; public performances evoke collective emotions. This article brings together considerations of poetic assemblies known as ‘mushāʿira’ in Pakistan with reflections on sermon congregations known as ‘waʿz mahfil’ in Bangladesh. The public performance spaces and protocols, decisive for building up collective emotions, exhibit many parallels between both genres. The cul…
Communities of Code-Switching Connoisseurs: Multilingualism in Islamic Sermons in Bangladesh
Code-switching is a universal phenomenon of community formation. Religious speech switches between different registers and codes, expanding its possibilities. In South Asia, the pleasure of including different codes and languages is, at the same time, a characteristic of poetic messages, of popular culture and linguistic systems. This paper considers the code-switching in Islamic sermons in contemporary Bangladesh (waz mahfils), which are charact…
Conceptual History and South Asian History
This review article provides an overview of important, recent approaches to conceptual history from scholarship on South Asia. While conceptual history is not a consolidated field in South Asia, the colonial encounter has greatly stimulated interest in conceptual inquiries. Recent scholarship questions the uniformity even of well-researched concepts such as liberalism. It is methodologically innovative in thinking about the influence of economic …
Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh: The Poetics of Popular Preaching
Islamic sermon gatherings are a central form of public piety and public expression in contemporary Bangladesh. Held since the 19th century, waz mahfils became so popular that it is today possible to participate in them on a daily basis in many regions of the country. Despite their significance in the rise of popular politics, the sermons are often disregarded as Islamist propaganda and very little research is dedicated to them
Public piety and Islamic preaching in Bangladesh
This article proposes ways how to access emotions in Islamic preaching. Conceptually, it brings together the often-juxtaposed spheres of body and mind; nature and culture; aesthetics and religion. Based on extensive research on Islamic sermons in Bangladesh between 2012 and 2015, it stresses the form of public speech as the means to access the emotional potentials of oratory. It argues that a focus on emotions allows us to gain a deeper understan…
Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Sermons on the Love of the Prophet
Ashraf Ali Thanawi (1863–1943) was one of the most influential South Asian preachers and authors of the twentieth century. His sermons range from Friday sermons in Arabic to those held before select disciples or at mass rallies in Urdu, and they were printed ever since his lifetime in great number and consistency. This article is particularly interested in the emotional roles allotted to preacher and audience and the overlap between religious and…
Religious Emotions and Emotions in Religion: The Case of Sermons
This article examines the challenges posed by combining the categories of religion and emotion in historical studies. It analyses two major ways of framing this: religious emotion and emotions in religion. By taking sermons as a case study, both as a religious practice and a genre of historical source, an approach that retains the useful elements of each approach is developed. At the same time, the article explores the potentials of sermons as a …
Ritual and Social Dynamics in Christian and Islamic Preaching
This volume explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious speeches through an analysis of Christian and Islamic sermons and preachers in the past and present. Part I focuses on the explicit contribution of sermons in socio-cultural transformation processes. It shows how the sermons' connection to holy texts and religious norms of the specific group results in a tense relationship between preaching and the respective socio-cultural present. Pa…
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Islam (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)