Lighting Candles and Writing Prayers: Observing Opportunities for Spiritual Practices in Churches in Rural Cornwall

Although there has been a growing number of empirical studies examining the content of written prayer requests left on prayer boards and in prayer books in cathedrals and churches, there has been no study of the contexts in which such personal devotional activities take place. In a survey of provisi...

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Main Author: Siôn, Tania ap (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 29, Pages: 54-74
Further subjects:B Religious sociology
B Social sciences
B Religionspsycholigie
B Allgemein
B Religionswissenschaften
B Religion & Gesellschaft
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