RELIGION / Prayer

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This article develops a semiotic analysis of prayer by shifting attention from verbal articulation to the structured management of non-expression. Rather than opposing silence to language, it argues that religious practices organize silence as a strategic suspension of expression, integral to the production of meaning, agency, and presence. Drawing on a semiotic philosophy of prayer, the article first reconstructs a…

Reference · Wikidata

doctoral thesis by Simon Paul Pulleyn

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Prayer in the Hebrew Bible is an evolving means of interacting with God, most frequently through a spontaneous, individual or collective, unorganized form of petitioning and/or thanking. Standardized prayer such as is done today is non-existent. However, beginning in Deuteronomy, the Bible lays the groundwork for organized prayer including basic liturgical guidelines, and by the Bible's later books, prayer has evolv…

Book · DOAB

This open access book is based on a unique body of data on a hitherto understudied field of Pentecostal prayer camps and mental health in Ghana . The book investigates and presents empirically grounded cases of persons with mental illness and how they deploy religious resources at prayer camps in Ghana in dealing with their illness. Particularly, the book explores perceived causes of mental illness and how such perc…

Full text · Open Library

It's on prayer

Image · DPLA

Correspondence and other documents related to House Prayer Breakfast group meetings, a forum for notable political, social, and business figures to meet and build relationships. Reifel held the positions of secretary, vice president, and president for the group. Circa 1966-1970.