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Talk about Prayer

An Ethnographic Commentary

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Johannes Fabian
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Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)

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Keywords

  • ethnography
  • experiment
  • family
  • writing

About this book

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.   

About the author

Johannes Fabian is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Talk about Prayer

  • Book Subtitle: An Ethnographic Commentary

  • Authors: Johannes Fabian

  • Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57015-4Published: 24 September 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2946-3475

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 144

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