| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society series |
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Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: You never know. -- Prayer as enchantment / Giuseppe Giordan -- Prayer as practice : an interpretative proposal / Carlo Genova -- For youth, prayer is relationship / Michael C. Mason -- Pentecostal prayer as personal communication and invisible institutional work / Yannick Fer -- Transcendence and immanence in public and private prayer / Martin Stringer -- Prayer as a tool in Swedish Pentecostalism / Emir Mahieddin -- Contrasting regimes of Sufi prayer and emotion work in the Indonesian Islamic revival / Julia Day Howell -- A socio-anthropological analysis of forms of prayer among the Amish / Andrea Borella -- Filipino Catholic students and prayer as conversation with God / Jayeel Serrano Cornelio -- The embodiment of prayer in charismatic Christianity / Michael Wilkinson, Peter Althouse -- Prayer requests in an English cathedral, and a new analytic framework for intercessory prayer / Tania ap Siôn -- An analysis of hospital chapel prayer requests / Peter Collins -- Conclusion: Prayer as changing the subject / Linda Woodhead |
| Summary |
Why do people pray and in what situations and settings? Does prayer imply a god, and if so, what sort? A Sociology of Prayer addresses these fundamental questions and opens up important new debates. Drawing from religion, anthropology and historical perspectives, the contributors focus particularly on prayer as a social and personal matter, and situate prayer in the conditions of complex, late modern societies worldwide. Presenting fresh empirical data in relation to original theorising, the volume examines the material aspects of prayer, including the objects, bodies, symbols and spaces with w |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prayer.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Prayer
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Giordan, Giuseppe, editor.
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Woodhead, Linda, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781472427687 |
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1472427688 |
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9781409455851 |
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1409455858 |
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9781472427694 |
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1472427696 |
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9781472427694 |
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1472427696 |
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