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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society seriesPublisher: Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]Description: xiv, 239 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781472427670 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 147242767X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781409455851 (pbk.)
  • 1409455858 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL560 .S58 2015
Contents:
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.
Action note:
  • Cataloging Notes: 20240508 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199
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Book Book AMREF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (AMIU) LIBRARY General Stacks Non-fiction BL560 .S58 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 18807
Book Book AMREF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (AMIU) LIBRARY General Stacks Non-fiction BL560 .S58 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 18806

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.

Cataloging Notes: 20240508 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199

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