On prayer
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and 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. Here, the first English translation to be published, is preceded by a general introduction by W.S.F.Pickering and finally a specific commentary on Mauss'…
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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.
Summary
Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and 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. Here, the first English translation to be published, is preceded by a general introduction by W.S.F.Pickering and finally a specific commentary on Mauss''s use of ethnographic material.
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- Publication Date:©2008
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Durkheim Press/Berghahn Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (174 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782384755, 1782384758
- oclc:on1273659818
- LC Classification:BL560
- Dewey Decimal:306.6/9143
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Presentation, Notes and Referencing; Introduction; Book I; Chapter 1: General Introduction; Chapter 2; Chapter 3: Initial Definition; Book II: The Nature of Elementary Oral Rites; Chapter 1: History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject; Chapter 2: Do Prayers Exist in Australia?; Chapter 3: The Formulae of the Intichiuma; Notes; Mauss''s Review of Segond''s Book on Prayer; Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections; Index
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