Annual review of the sociology of religion. / Volume 4, : Prayer in religion and spirituality / / edited by Giuseppe Giordan and Linda Woodhead.
Prayer is a phenomenon which seems to be characteristic not only of participants in every religion, but also men and women who do not identify with traditional religions. It can be practised even by those who do not believe either in a God or transcendent force. In this sense, therefore, we may asse...
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| Superior document: | Annual review of the sociology of religion, volume 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 pages) :; illustrations (some color). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Giuseppe Giordan and Linda Woodhead
- Introduction: Prayer in Religion and Spirituality / Giuseppe Giordan and Linda Woodhead
- Making the Sacred Real / Michael C. Mason
- Praying in Groups: Suggestions for a Sociology of Prayer / SC Patricia Wittberg
- Changing Attitudes towards Prayer: Comparison between European and Italian Trends / Franco Garelli and Roberta Ricucci
- Canvassing the Faithful: Image, Agency and the Lived Religiosity of Devotion to the Divine Mercy / Jane Garnett and Alana Harris
- Public Prayer, Political Mobilization, and Civic Participation: The Case of Protestantism in Hong Kong / Shun-hing Chan and Wing-leung Law
- Naraloka Prarthana: Prayer in the Language of Protest / Ashok Kumar M. and Rowena Robinson
- The Meaning of Prayer for Young Muslim Immigrants in Quebec (Canada) / Josiane Le Gall
- ‘Without Prayer you have Nothing’: Prayer in Uncertain Times in Trinidad / Rebecca Lynch
- Street Prayer: A Case Study of the Use of Prayer by Street Pastors / Sylvia Collins-Mayo
- Prayer as Transgression: Stories from Healthcare / Sonya Sharma , Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham and Marie Cochrane
- Praying for the Dead in Soka Gakkai International – U.K. / Helen Waterhouse
- Pentecostal-Charismatic Prayer and Social Engagement / Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse
- Crazy World, Crazy Faith! Prayer, Power and Transformation in a Nigerian Prayer City / Annalisa Butticci
- Establishing a ‘Culture of Prayer’: Holistic Spirituality and the Social Transformation of Contemporary Evangelicalism / Sebastian Schüler
- Does it Matter Whether the Holy Spirit Spoke to Fatima? / Oleg Dik
- List of Contributors / Giuseppe Giordan and Linda Woodhead
- Index / Giuseppe Giordan and Linda Woodhead.