On Prayer

"Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned text of 176 pages (Books I and II), which was 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. This is the first English translation to be published It is preceded by a general introduction by W. S. F. Pickering and finally a commentary on Mauss's use of ethnographic material."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Durkheim Press

Editions

1

Pages

158

ISBN

9781571816337

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