The Social Life Of Prayer

Author : Andreas Bandak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000358208
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Prayer written by Andreas Bandak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 oriented towards and care about. Taking its cue from Marcel Mauss, the book invites us to go beyond the individual and see how prayers always point to a broader social landscape of obligation and affective investment. Focusing on the social life of prayers, the book posits, accordingly entices a particular form of situated comparison of diverse Christian traditions that pushes the scholarly conversation on Christianity to consider central questions of agency, responsibility and subjectivity. Taking up prayer as the object of study, this book offers novel anthropological perspectives on Christian life and practice. The chapters in this book were originally published a special issue of Religion.

Author : Jean Danielou
Publisher : Sophia
ISBN 13 : 9781644134474
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayer as a Political Problem written by Jean Danielou and published by Sophia. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilization and Christianity depend heavily upon one another. There is no true civilization which is not religious; nor can there be a healthy religion among a populace which is not supported by civilization. Today, too many Christians see no inconsistency in the juxtaposition of a private religion and an irreligious society, nor do they perceive how ruinous this is for both society and religion. But how are society and religion to be joined without either making religion a tool of the secular power, or the secular power a tool of religion?

Author : Allan Hugh Cole
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664230695
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Prayer written by Allan Hugh Cole and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for those who are not yet comfortable with prayer or who have reached an impasse in their prayer lives. Cole offers help to both groups by demonstrating different kinds of prayer, helping the reader find ways to pray in various situations, and providing sample prayers. He also suggests practical ways of approaching scriptural prayers such as the Lord's Prayer and the Psalms, contemplative prayers such as open prayer and centering prayer, prayer within the traditions of the church, and prayer using the language of worship. The volume includes study questions at the end of each chapter.

Author : John H. Westerhoff
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819219509
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Faithfully as a Prayer Book People written by John H. Westerhoff and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Episcopal priest and Christian educator walks readers through the ways in which the contents of the Book of Common Prayer can (and should) shape the life of those who call themselves Episcopalians.

Author : Leisure Arts
Publisher : Leisure Arts
ISBN 13 : 1574865919
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prayer Shawl Ministry written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2005 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prayer Shawl Ministry, -Knitters and crocheters of all faiths are creating handmade shawls as gifts of comfort, hope and peace. 8 beginner friendly shawls.

Author : Matthew Fox
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1585420980
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayer written by Matthew Fox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a new edition of one of Matthew Fox's most powerful early books, another in a series of the classic works by the maverick priest and theologian being reissued by Tarcher/Putnam. Prayer was written by Fox when he was a radical young priest fresh from the experience of the sixties and Vatican II. Originally published in 1972, it is one of the first works to herald the revolution of liberal theology that was just beginning to sweep the nation. Originally published under the title On Becoming a Musical, Mystical Bear: Spirituality American Style, the book now has a more accessible title and appearance and is as vital today as when it first appeared.

Author : Cleland Boyd McAfee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZU/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psalms of the Social Life written by Cleland Boyd McAfee and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jenifer Gamber
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819228508
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call on Me written by Jenifer Gamber and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First exclusively Episcopal prayer book for youth This prayer book designed for teens draws from the Book of Common Prayer, relevant prayers written by well known Episcopalians, and ancient prayers rooted in the Bible. New and original prayers are also offered, written by contemporary church leaders in the Episcopal Church, as well as by teens themselves, young adults and youth leaders. The book is structured in four parts: Daily Prayer. Including morning prayer, table blessings, and night time. Prayers for the Seasons of the Church Year. Blessing of a Christmas tree, prayer for Christ in my life for Easter, prayer for courage to share my faith, and more. Prayers for Daily Life. Before a special school event, before a sports event, before a test, being left out, bullying, dating, divorce, doubts, forgiveness, friendship, gratitude, grief, guidance, hope, motivation, peer pressure, pets, purpose, and more. Prayers for Important Events. Significant birthday, earning a driver’s license, Confirmation, beginning the school year, starting high school, applying for college, graduating high school, going to college, joining the workforce.

Author : Lewis V. Baldwin
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451413009
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never to Leave Us Alone written by Lewis V. Baldwin and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author looks at the personal prayers that Martin Luther King Jr. recited, explaining how King turned to private prayer and meditation for his own spiritual fulfillment, and to public prayer as part of his sermonic discourse, as an aspect of his pastoral care and as a way of moving, inspiring and reaffirming people. Original.

Author : David Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983498056
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quaker Prayer Life written by David Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Quaker prayer life arises from a life of continuing daily attentiveness. The first generation of Quakers followed a covenant with God, based on assidious obedience to the promptings of the Inward Light. This process did not require the established churches, priests or liturgies. Quaker prayer then became a practice of patient waiting in silence. Prayer is a conscious choice to seek God, in whatever form that Divine Presence speaks to each of us, moment to moment. The difficulties we experience in inward prayer are preparation for our outward lives. Each time we return to the centre in prayer we are modelling how to live our lives; each time we dismiss the internal intrusions we are strengthening that of God within us and denying the role of the Self; every time we turn to prayer and to God we are seeking an increase in the measure of Light in our lives. David Johnson is a Member of Queensland Regional Meeting of the Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. David is a geologist with both industry and academic experience, and wrote The Geology of Australia, specifically for the general public. He has a long commitment to nonviolence and opposing war and the arms trade, and has worked with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. David delivered the 2005 Backhouse Lecture to Australia Yearly Meeting on Peace is a Struggle. He was part of the work to establish the Silver Wattle Quaker Centre in Australia in 2010, and is Co-Director of the Centre for 2013-14.