Part I. Introductory essays
ch. 1. The British sermon 1689-1901 : quantities, performance and culture / William Gibson
ch. 2. Sermons : themes and developments / Keith A. Francis
Part II. Communities, cultures and communication
ch. 3. Parish preaching in teh long eighteenth century / Jeffrey S. Chamberlain
ch. 4. Parish preachingin the Victorian era : the village sermon / Francese Knight
ch. 5. Preaching from the platform / Martin Hewitt
ch. 6. The British Quaker sermon, 1689-1901 / Michael Graves
ch. 7. The sermons of the eighteenth-century Evangelicals / Bob Tennant
ch. 8. Sermons in British Catholicism to the restoration of the hierarchy / Geoffry Scott
ch. 9. Preaching in the churches of Scotland / Ann Matheson
ch. 10. The sermon and political controversy in Ireland, 1800-1850 / Irene Whelan
ch. 11. Sermons in Wales in the established church / John Morgan-Guy
ch. 12. Preaching in the vernacular : the Welsh sermon, 1689-1901 / D. Densil Morgan
ch. 13. Order and uniformity, decorum, and taste : sermons preaches at the anniversary meeting of the three choirs, 1720-1800 / Andrew Pink
Part III. Occasional sermons
ch. 14. The sermon, court and Parliament, 1689-1789 / Pasi Ihalainen
ch. 15. The defence of Georgian Britain : the anti-Jacobite sermon, 1715-1746 / James J. Caudle
ch. 16. Preaching, national salvation, victories, and thanksgivings : 1689-1800 / Warren Johnston
ch. 17. Sermons in the age of the American and French revolutions / G. M. Ditchfield
ch. 18. 'This itching ear'd age' : visitation sermons and charges in the eighteenth century / William Gibson
ch. 19. consecration sermons / Colin Haydon
ch. 20. The Protestant funeral sermon in England, 1688-1800 / Penny Pritchard
ch. 21. The Victorian funeral sermon / John Wolffe
Part IV. Controversies, and the development of ideas
ch. 22. hard Labour : institutional benevolence and the development of national education / bob Tennant
ch. 23. Sermons for end times : Evangelicalism, romanticism, and apocalypse in Britain / Keith A. Francis and Robert J. Surridge
ch. 24. Rationalism, the enlightenment, and sermons / Nigel Aston
ch. 25. Preaching the Oxford movement / Jeremy Morris
ch. 26. Sermons and the Catholic restoration / Melissa Wilkinson
ch. 27. Paley to Darwin : natural theology versus science in Victorian sermons / Keith A. Francis
ch. 28. Preaching the broad church gospel : the natal sermons of Bishop John William Colenso / Gerald Parsons
Part V Missions and ideas of empire
ch. 29. From Barbarism to civility, from darkness to light : preaching empire as sacred history / Robert G. Ingram
ch. 30. Eighteenth-century mission sermons / Rowan Strong
ch. 31. The sermon in the British colonies / Joanna Cruickshank
ch. 32. Church of Ireland missions to Roman Catholics, c.1700-1800 / Andrew Sneddon
ch. 33. 'Go ye therefore and teach all nations.' Evangelical and mission sermons : the Imperial period / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
Part VI Sermons and literature
ch. 34. the poet-preachers / Kirstie Blair
ch. 35. Tradition, preaching, and the Gothic revival / Stephen Prickett
ch. 36. The sermon and the Victorian novel / Linda Gill
Part VII Conclusion
ch. 37. Sermon studies : major issues and future directions / Keith A. Francis.