On prayer / Marcel Mauss ; translated by Susan Leslie ; edited and with and introduction by W.S.F. Pickering and concluding remarks by Howard Morphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mauss, Marcel, author.

Contributor:

Pickering, W. S. F., editor.

Morphy, Howard, contributor.

Leslie, Susan, translator.

Series:

Publications of the Durkheim Press

Standardized Title:

Prière. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayer.

Religion and sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians. Here, the first English translation to be published, is preceded by a general introduction by W.S.F.Pickering and finally a specific commentary on Mauss''s use of ethnographic material.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Presentation, Notes and Referencing; Introduction; Book I; Chapter 1: General Introduction; Chapter 2; Chapter 3: Initial Definition; Book II: The Nature of Elementary Oral Rites; Chapter 1: History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject; Chapter 2: Do Prayers Exist in Australia?; Chapter 3: The Formulae of the Intichiuma; Notes; Mauss''s Review of Segond''s Book on Prayer; Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 23, 2014).

ISBN:

9781782384755

1782384758

OCLC:

875632484