The Social Nature of Prayer in a Church of the Unchurched: Russian Orthodox Christianity from Its Edges
The Russian Orthodox Church portrays itself as a hierarchically ordered and socially influential public religion, but occupies quite a tenuous position in contemporary Russian society. Following Marcel Mauss's idea of prayer as a social phenomenon, we argue that lay intercessory prayer as a w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2018]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 86, Issue: 2, Pages: 394-424 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Layman
/ Prayer
/ Social role
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBK Europe (East) KDF Orthodox Church |
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