The Social Life of Prayer

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Social Life of Prayers: Affect, Obligation and the Formation of Religious Character

Andreas Bandak

1. Praying for salvation: a map of relatedness

Joseph Webster

2. Learning to pray the Pentecostal way: language and personhood on the Zambian Copperbelt

Naomi Haynes

3. Praying until Jesus returns: commitment and prayerfulness among charismatic Christians in Ghana

Bruno Reinhardt

4. 'I've tempted the saint with my prayer!' Prayer, charisma and ethics in Romanian eastern orthodox Christianity

Simion Pop

5. Repeated prayers: saying the rosary in contemporary Syria

Andreas Bandak