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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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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.   

Keywords

  • ethnography
  • experiment
  • family
  • writing

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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