Talk about Prayer
An Ethnographic Commentary
Published on 24. September 2015
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-137-57015-4 (ISBN)
Description
Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Régine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic prayer group (groupe de prière) in Lubumbashi (Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and members of her family in 1986.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
144 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-57015-4 (9781137570154)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Johannes Fabian is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Content
1. Into the Past: Global Charismatic Renewal and Local Survival 2. Back to the Present: A Text 3. Lives, Visions, and Voices 4. Praying 5. Local Survival 6. Questions