The politics of prayer books: Delegated intercession, names, and community boundaries in the Russian Orthodox Church

Prayer is most easily conceived of as political speech when it is a spontaneous practice showing individual and group reactions to current events. Where prayer is a routinized activity involving the recitation of canonical texts, interpreters locate politics in the disciplining of bodies and acts of...

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Published in:Journal of religious and political practice
Main Author: Luehrmann, Sonja (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis [2016]
In: Journal of religious and political practice
Further subjects:B social indexicality
B Pussy Riot
B Russian Orthodox Church
B Abortion
B Prayer
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