Uncommon Prayer : Prayer in Everyday Experience / Michael Plekon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plekon, Michael, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayer--Christianity.

Prayer.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.

Summary:

The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government's willing collaboration in providing the Nazi regime with French manpower to replace German workers sent to fight in the war. The result was the deportation of 600, 000 young Frenchmen to Germany, where they worked under the harshest conditions. Elie Poulard was one of the Frenchmen forced into labor by the Vichy government. Translated by his brother Jean V. Poulard, Elie's memoir vividly captures the lives of a largely unrecognized group of people who suffered under the Nazis. He describes in great detail his ordeal at different work sites in the Ruhr region, the horrors that he witnessed, and the few Germans who were good to him. Through this account of one eyewitness on the ground, we gain a vivid picture of Allied bombing in the western part of Germany and its contribution to the gradual collapse and capitulation of Germany at the end of the war. Throughout his ordeal, Elie's Catholic faith, good humor, and perseverance sustained him. Little has been published in French or English about the use of foreign workers by the Nazi regime and their fate. The Poulards' book makes an important contribution to the historiography of World War II, with its firsthand account of what foreign workers endured when they were sent to Nazi Germany. The memoir concludes with an explanation of the ongoing controversy in France over the opposition to the title Déporté du Travail, which those who experienced this forced deportation, like Elie, gave themselves after the war.

Contents:

Prayer in many places

The prayer of theologians and others: Sarah Coakley, Rowan Williams, Heather Havrilesky, and Sara Miles

The prayer of a hermit: Thomas Merton

The prayer of poets: Mary Oliver, Christian Wiman, and Mary Karr

The prayer of forgetting and remembering: a list and a map

The prayer of darkness: Barbara Brown Taylor

The prayer of care for those in need: Maria Skobtsova and Dorothy Day

The prayer of pirogi making and other food adventures: the communion of community

The prayer of the classroom: encounter and listening

The prayer of one's life: Paul Evdokimov and Seraphim of Sarov

The prayer of contemplation and action: Richard Rohr

The prayer of incarnation.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268100803

0268100802

9780268100025

0268100020

9780268100032

0268100039

OCLC:

950724966