Overview

What was the place of prayer in the early modern world? What did it look and sound like in those centuries? How did the activities, expressions, and texts of prayer bind disparate peoples together or create friction within communities? What roles did prayer play in intercultural contact, including violence, conquest, and resistance?   These crucial questions—and many more—are answered in Early Modern Prayer. This volume of essays shows how we can we use prayers of the early modern era, roughly 1500 to1800, to more deeply analyze and understand the people, politics, and cultures of the time.  

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Author:   William Gibson ,  Laura Stevens ,  Sabine Volk-Birke
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786832252

ISBN 10:   1786832259
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   07 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction by William Gibson, Laura Stevens and Sabine Volk-Birke. Denise M. Kohn: ‘Rowlandson’s “Cover Story”: The Revision of Private Devotional Practice into Public Narrative.’ Elena Marasinova: ‘The Prayer of an Empress and the Eighteenth Century Russian Death Penalty Moratorium’ Linda Meditz: ‘The Captive at Prayer: Cross-Cultural Trauma as Revealed in the Diary of Stephen Williams’. Penny Pritchard: ‘The Eye of a Needle: Commemorating the ‘Godly Merchant’ in the Early Modern Funeral Sermon.’ Laura Stevens: ‘Mary’s Magnificat in Eighteenth Century Britain’Sabine Volk-Birke: ‘“The Order and Methods of Nosegays”: Imagining Readers in François de Sales's Introduction à la vie dévote (1609) and its eighteenth century English adaptations.’

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William Gibson is professor of ecclesiastical history and director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History at Oxford Brookes University. Laura Stevens is associate professor of English at the University of Tulsa. Sabine Volk-Birke is professor of English literature at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

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