On prayer

On prayer

by Mauss, Marcel

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"Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned text of 176 pages (Books I and II), which was privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians. This is the first English translation to be published It is preceded by a general introduction by W. S. F. Pickering and finally a commentary on Mauss's …

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  • Full title :On prayer / Marcel Mauss ; translated by Susan Leslie ; edited and with and introduction by W.S.F. Pickering and concluding remarks by Howard Morphy.

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"Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned text of 176 pages (Books I and II), which was privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians. This is the first English translation to be published It is preceded by a general introduction by W. S. F. Pickering and finally a commentary on Mauss's use of ethnographic material."--BOOK JACKET.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2003.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:158 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:157181633X, 9781571816337
  • oclc:ocm52258363
  • LC Classification:BL560
  • Dewey Decimal:306.6/9143

Subjects

Gebeden Prayer Prière RELIGION Religion and sociology Sociologie religieuse

Writers

Mauss, Marcel Morphy, Howard Pickering, W. S. F.

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