On Prayer

Text and Commentary
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-57181-633-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 0, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 265 g

Reihe: Publications of the Durkheim Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickering, W. S. F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontispiece

Acknowledgements

Presentation, Notes and Referencing

Introduction to an Unfinished Work

W.S.F. Pickering

Marcel Mauss: On Prayer

Translated by Susan Leslie

Book I

Chapter 1. General Introduction

Chapter 2.

Chapter 3. Initial Definition

Book II The Nature of Elementary Oral Rites

Chapter 1. The History of the Question and Delineation of the Subject

Chapter 2. Do Prayers Exist in Australia?

Chapter 3. The Formulae of the Intichiuma

Notes

Edited by Robert Parkin

Mauss’s Review of Segond’s book on Prayer

Translated by Susan Leslie

Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections

Howard Morphy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pickering, W. S. F.
W. S. F. Pickering (1922-2016), was a retired Lecturer in sociology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1991, he helped found the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

W. S. F. Pickering (1922-2016), was a retired Lecturer in sociology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1991, he helped found the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.