On Prayer

On PrayerMarcel 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.

traces the history of the Valley of the Kings and offers specific proposals to manage the site and protect its fragile contents

It critically evaluates how the unbelonged position impacts Roma’s self-representation and political mobilisation

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Set in 1811-1812 during the strife of the industrial revolution

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and a shared faith in the promise of literature to speak to

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details his time as a political exile in the Sakhalin penal colony from 1887 to 1895

Neville presents a theory of practical reason oriented to objective norms determined cross-culturally and based on a Confucian sense of the ritual character of the most important levels of moral life

that a self must relate to itself and others in aesthetic

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