The Social Life of Prayer: Anthropological Engagements with Christian Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367712358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 114 str.

Andreas Bandak

Opis

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.

O autorze

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.