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Prayer : a history / Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zaleski, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prayer.
- Physical Description:
- 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.
- Summary:
- Focusing on extraordinary stories of lives changed by prayer and on great works of literature and art inspired by it, the authors map the vast world of prayer from the sacred pipe to the rosary, from Neanderthal funerals to Pentecostal revivals.
- Contents:
- The foundations of prayer
- Magic
- Deeper magic
- The refugee
- The devotee
- The ecstatic
- The contemplative
- Prayer and tradition
- Prayer and the modern arts
- Prayer and the public square
- Prayer and healing
- The efficacy of prayer
- The mystery of prayer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-368) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0618152881
- OCLC:
- 60373697
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618152889
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