International conference "Crises and Preaching in the Middle East: Lexis, framing, timings, (19th‒21st centuries)", PredicMO — Institut Français in Amman, Jordan, 26-27 May 2025

*** FRENCH BELOW*** Is preaching inherently linked to crisis? This question serves as the focal point of the upcoming conference, Crises and Preaching: Lexis, Framing, Timings (19th–21st c. Middle East), which will take place on May 26–27, 2025, at the Institut Français in Amman, Jordan.” Drawing on Max Weber’s distinction between “pastoral care” and crisis-driven prophetic preaching, the event explores how religious traditions in the Middle East have responded to moments of rupture—whether ...