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Non-verbal language in preaching: a process for understanding between preachers and congregations

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Nuscher, Max Edwin. Non-verbal Language In Preaching: a Process for Understanding Between Preachers and Congregations. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/057860ef-b954-49b9-bad3-984c013892a6.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

N. M. Edwin. Non-verbal language in preaching: a process for understanding between preachers and congregations. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/057860ef-b954-49b9-bad3-984c013892a6

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Nuscher, Max Edwin. Non-Verbal Language In Preaching: a Process for Understanding Between Preachers and Congregations. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/057860ef-b954-49b9-bad3-984c013892a6.

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  • This project is designed to help clergy become aware of what meanings the laity in their congregations give to non-verbal gestures used in preaching. To do this, a “semantic differential” scale was designed and tested in various congregations including those of a liturgical tradition as well as those without such a formal heritage. The scale was used by laypersons to indicate their responses to specific video-taped gestures of their minister in the process of preaching a sermon in worship which they attended. Scores from the scale were then used as a basis for discussions between the laity and their minister concerning the ways in which his gestures were being understood. Three congregations, along with their ministers, became more aware of the relationship between verbal content and non-verbal gestures used during the preaching event. The project was conducted with only those persons who had the capacity both to listen and to see what was happening during the sermon. Personas who had either a visual handicap or a hearing impairment were not selected for participation.
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  • 12/18/2025

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