Nobody Prays Alone: the Practice of Prayer Among Catholics in Three Latin American Cities
While some scholarship considers the reports on "personal prayer" in surveys as a sing of religious individualism, this article argues that prayer, from a sociological perspective, is a social activity. Based on a sample of 112 Catholic respondents in the cities of Montevideo (Uruguay), Li...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2021
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International journal of Latin American religions
Año: 2021, Volumen: 5, Número: 2, Páginas: 265-286 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Südamerika
/ Catolicismo
/ Oración
/ Individualidad
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CB Existencia cristiana CE Arte cristiana CH Cristianismo y sociedad KBR América Latina KDB Iglesia católica RA Teología práctica |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Lived Religion
B Sociology of prayer B Catholicism B sociology of religion B Latin America B Prayer |
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| Sumario: | While some scholarship considers the reports on "personal prayer" in surveys as a sing of religious individualism, this article argues that prayer, from a sociological perspective, is a social activity. Based on a sample of 112 Catholic respondents in the cities of Montevideo (Uruguay), Lima (Peru), and Córdoba (Argentina), this research analyzes the content of interview and object elicitation meetings’ transcripts and participants’ produced photos, exploring the practice of prayer that is connecting with God. After analyzing different dimensions of prayer (quantity, style, content, interlocutors, and emotions), the article shows that personal prayer does not necessarily mean religious individualization and that while praying, respondents engage their webs of human and supra-human relations. This research, an exploratory study, gives us a better empirical understanding of prayer from a sociological perspective, in Latin America. |
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| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-021-00144-4 |