The Social Life of Prayer
Anthropological Engagements with Christian Practice
This book brings the theme of prayer into anthropological discussion. Across diverse significant ethnographic case studies, five anthropologists attend to prayers and how they are performed and seen to intervene in the social world. The studies include Pentecostals in Zambia, Charismatic Christians in Ghana, Protestants in Scotland, Eastern Orthodox Christians in Romania, and Catholics in Syria. Across these ethnographic cases, the book argues that focusing on the social life of prayer offers a significant way to engage with matters close to people. Prayers are a way to map affect and the affective relationships people hold in what they are o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-00-035820-9
- EAN: 9781000358209
- Produktnummer: 35744731
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 122 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Andreas Bandak is associate professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests include Orthodox and Catholic Christianity in the Levant and Denmark. Currently, he is co-PI of the collective research project The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Global Modernities.
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