A sociology of prayer / edited by Giuseppe Giordan and Linda Woodhead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giordan, Giuseppe.

Woodhead, Linda.

Series:

Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayer.

Physical Description:

xiv, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

Contents:

Prayer as practice : an interpretative proposal / Carlo Genova

For youth, prayer is relationship / Michael 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 Serano Cornelio

The embodiment of prayer in charismatic Christianity / Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse

Prayer requests in an English cathedral, and a new analytic framework for intercessory prayer / Tania ap Sion

An analysis of hospital chapel prayer requests / Peter Collins.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781472427670

147242767X

9781409455851

1409455858

OCLC:

903211884