A sociology of prayer /

A sociology of prayer / edited by Giuseppe Giordan and Linda Woodhead. - xiv, 239 pages ; 24 cm. - Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society series . - Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 and 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.

9781472427670 (hardcover : alk. paper) 147242767X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409455851 (pbk.) 1409455858 (pbk.)

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