Establishing a 'Culture of Prayer': Holistic Spirituality and the Social Transformation of Contemporary Evangelicalism
Drawing on current ethnographic research in England, Germany, Spain, and Macedonia, the article will introduce a new charismatic-evangelical prayer movement that established a global prayer-chain and local prayer-communities. The so-called 24/7 Prayer-movement can be characterised as part of a broad...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 4, Pages: 263-280 |
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| Summary: | Drawing on current ethnographic research in England, Germany, Spain, and Macedonia, the article will introduce a new charismatic-evangelical prayer movement that established a global prayer-chain and local prayer-communities. The so-called 24/7 Prayer-movement can be characterised as part of a broader emerging religious attitude to highlight spiritual practices and to turn towards issues of social justice. This way, particularly evangelicals aim for creating new religious identities and a new public image. Accordingly, the article will examine how prayer can be understood and works as a social form of religious practice in relation to prayer as a form of individual spirituality. As will be demonstrated, prayer in this case is used as a form of social protest as well as a way to popularise a “holistic spirituality” as a form of social action. Thus, the movement intends to establish a “culture of prayer” in order to ground a particular religious attitude into everyday life and thereby to engender social and individual change. The 24/7 Prayer-movement has become one of the best-known brands for prayer in the modern Christian milieu and can count as a case study for observing current transformations of the religious lifestyles at the beginning of the 21st century. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004260498_016 DOI: 10.15496/publikation-62027 HDL: 10900/120654 |