On Prayer

Text and Commentary

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Publications of the Durkheim Press
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Religiöse Gemeinschaften
• ISBN: 9781571816337
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2003
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: W. S. F. Pickering