A Sociology of Prayer

Contents: Introduction: You never know. Prayer as enchantment, Giuseppe Giordan; Prayer as practice: an interpretative proposal, Carlo Genova; For youth, prayer is relationship, Michael C. Mason; Pentecostal prayer as personal communication and invisible institutional work, Yannick Fer; Transcendence and immanence in public and private prayer, Martin Stringer; Prayer as a tool in Swedish Pentecostalism, Emir Mahieddin; Contrasting regimes of Sufi prayer and emotion work in the Indonesian Islamic revival, Julia Day Howell; A socio-anthropological analysis of forms of prayer among the Amish, Andrea Borella; Filipino Catholic students and prayer as conversation with God, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio; The embodiment of prayer in charismatic Christianity, Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse; Prayer requests in an English cathedral, and a new analytic framework for intercessory prayer, Tania ap Siôn; An analysis of hospital chapel prayer requests, Peter Collins; Conclusion: Prayer as changing the subject, Linda Woodhead; Index.