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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.
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On prayer, Marcel Mauss, Howard Morphy, Susan Leslie, W S F Pickering
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- Title
- On prayer
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marcel Mauss, Howard Morphy, Susan Leslie, W S F Pickering
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 158
- ISBN10
- 157181633X
- ISBN13
- 9781571816337
- Series
- Rating
- 3.25 out of 5
- Description
- 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.