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.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2021 |
Editors: |
Andreas Bandak
|
Dimensions: |
246 x 174mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
114 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-71236-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-367-71236-9 |
Barcode: |
9780367712365 |
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