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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
2021
|
| In: |
International journal of Latin American religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 265-286 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
South America
/ Catholicism
/ Prayer
/ Individuality
|
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CE Christian art CH Christianity and Society KBR Latin America KDB Roman Catholic Church RA Practical theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Lived Religion
B Sociology of prayer B Catholicism B sociology of religion B Latin America B Prayer |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-021-00144-4 |