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The Social Life of Prayer

Author : Andreas Bandak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000358208
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 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.

The Life of Prayer

Author : Allan Hugh Cole
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664230695
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 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.

Prayer

Author : Matthew Fox
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1585420980
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 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.

A Quaker Prayer Life

Author : David Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983498056
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 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.

The Prayer Shawl Ministry

Author : Leisure Arts
Publisher : Leisure Arts
ISBN 13 : 1574865919
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (748 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.

A Sociology of Prayer

Author : Giuseppe Giordan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351961489
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book A Sociology of Prayer written by Giuseppe Giordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayer is a central aspect of religion. Even amongst those who have abandoned organized religion levels of prayer remain high. Yet the most basic questions remain unaddressed: What exactly is prayer? How does it vary? Why do people pray and in what situations and settings? Does prayer imply a god, and if so, what sort? A Sociology of Prayer addresses these fundamental questions and opens up important new debates. Drawing from religion, sociology of religion, anthropology, and historical perspectives, the contributors focus on prayer as a social as well as a personal matter and situate prayer in the conditions of complex late modern societies worldwide. Presenting fresh empirical data in relation to original theorising, the volume also examines the material aspects of prayer, including the objects, bodies, symbols, and spaces with which it may be integrally connected.

Living Faithfully as a Prayer Book People

Author : John H. Westerhoff
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819219509
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 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.

Call on Me

Author : Jenifer Gamber
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819228508
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 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.

Psalms of the Social Life

Author : Cleland Boyd McAfee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/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:

A Simple Life-Changing Prayer

Author : Jim Manney
Publisher : Messenger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1788123719
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book A Simple Life-Changing Prayer written by Jim Manney and published by Messenger Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer is a valuable and thoughtful book, and a very practical one, which can be put with confidence into the hands of anyone who wishes to learn to pray the Examen and to find the presence and action of God in their lives.” —Andrea Kelly, Thinking Faith Sometimes we can experience prayer as formal, dry, and repetitious. But what might happen if we discovered a simple prayer that changed all that? In A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Jim Manney introduces Christians to a 500-year-old form of prayer that dramatically altered his perception of prayer and the way he prayed. The prayer is the Examen, which St. Ignatius Loyola developed for the purpose of nurturing a reflective habit of mind that is constantly attuned to God’s presence. What makes the prayer so powerful is its capacity to dispel any notion that God is somewhere “up there,” detached from our day-to-day tasks and concerns. Instead, the examen leads us into a relationship with a God who desires to be personally caught up in the lives of those whom he created.

Prayer and the Common Life

Author : Georgia Harkness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780687054510
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Prayer and the Common Life written by Georgia Harkness and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Prayer and the Common Life, theologian Georgia Harkness argues that in response to the troubles of the world around us - one that is consumed with materialism, constantly at war, and filled with social injustices of all kinds - what is most needed is a revitalization of "vital, God-centered, intelligently grounded" prayer. Instead of prayer that merely insulates one from the world, Harkness advocates prayer that "makes a difference in the common life" - that is, prayer that transforms both the person praying and the world for which he or she prays.

The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107050650
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom by : Jamie Kreiner

Download or read book The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom written by Jamie Kreiner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how a set of great stories changed the political playing field in an early medieval society.

The Way of Prayer

Author : Jane E. Vennard
Publisher : Companions in Christ
ISBN 13 : 9780835899062
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Prayer written by Jane E. Vennard and published by Companions in Christ. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's said that prayer is so primal an urge for humankind that we're born into the world praying. Yet, something so natural and seemingly so easy comes hard sometimes. The Way of Prayer is a 10-week small-group study about the nature, practice, and results of prayer. "All prayer, formal or informal, is about our relationship with God," the authors write. "Somewhere deep inside us resides the experience of being so deeply connected to God that we long to express the wonder of that relationship. We pray because we can.and must." Honor the ways you were taught to pray while expanding your understanding to include new ways to pray. Topics covered include: How Do You Pray? Images of God Praying by Heart Praying with Music Praying by Gaze Praying with Our Bodies Scriptural Prayer Contemplative Prayer Praying with and for Others Prayer and Social Transformation

The Social Life of Dreams

Author : Adriënne Heijnen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643902387
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social Life of Dreams by : Adriënne Heijnen

Download or read book The Social Life of Dreams written by Adriënne Heijnen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how dreams, remembered upon awakening, are turned into social action in a European society. Supported by ethnographic research of modern Iceland and examples from the historical literature, the book argues that the social meaning ascribed to the Icelandic dream has been a continuous part of Icelandic everyday life for a thousand years and is still being adapted today. (Series: European Studies in Culture and Policy - Vol. 12)

Sacramental Life

Author : David A. deSilva
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830835180
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Sacramental Life written by David A. deSilva and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As David deSilva has experienced the ancient wisdom of the Book of Common Prayer, he's been formed spiritually in deep and lasting ways. In these pages, he offers you a brand new way to use the Book of Common Prayer, exploring how Christians can be spiritually formed by the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist, marriage and last rites.

Dangerous Prayers

Author : Craig Groeschel
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310343135
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Prayers written by Craig Groeschel and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be inspired to pray boldly, pray powerfully, pray with passion, and trade ineffective prayers and lukewarm faith for raw, daring prayers that will transform your daily life. Do you ever wonder if God answers your prayers? Do you wish you could see the evidence that prayer changes lives? Do you long for more than playing it safe in your faith? Join New York Times bestselling author Craig Groeschel as he helps you discover the power of authentically communicating with God, breaking out of the restrictive spiritual safety bubble, and expanding your ideas about what's possible with God. The Bible tells us that prayer has the power to move God's heart, but some prayers move him more than others. He wants more for us than a tepid faith and half-hearted routines at the dinner table. God called you to a life of courage, not comfort. In Dangerous Prayers, Groeschel will show you how to pray the prayers that search your soul, break your habits, and send you out to pursue the calling God has for you. But be warned: If you're fine with settling for what's easy, or if you're okay with staying on the sidelines, this book isn't for you. You'll be challenged. You'll be tested. You'll be moved to take a long, hard look at your heart. But you'll be inspired, too. Dangerous Prayers will give you the encouragement and tools you need to: Transform the patterns around your daily prayer life Truly embrace and believe in the power of intentional prayer Start to pray daring, faith-filled, God-honoring, life-changing, world-transforming prayers You'll discover the secret to overcoming fears of loss, rejection, failure, and the unknown, and you'll welcome the blessings God has for you on the other side. But best of all, you'll gain the courage it takes to pray dangerous prayers.

The Psychology of Prayer

Author : Bernard Spilka
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 146250695X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Prayer written by Bernard Spilka and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the growing body of scientific research on prayer, this book describes what is known about the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, developmental, and health aspects of this important religious activity. The highly regarded authors provide a balanced perspective on what prayer means to the individual, how and when it is practiced, and the impact it has in people's lives. Clinically relevant topics include connections among prayer, coping, and adjustment, as well as controversial questions of whether prayer (for oneself or another) can be beneficial to health. The strengths and limitations of available empirical studies are critically evaluated, and promising future research directions are identified.