On Prayer. Группа авторовКультурология. Publications of the Durkheim Press
- Название
- On Prayer
- Автор:
- Группа авторов
- Серия:
- Publications of the Durkheim Press
- Жанр:
- Культурология
- Год выпуска:
- 0
- isbn:
- 9781782384755
- Аннотация:
- 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.