A sociology of prayer

1. Prayer as practice : an interpretative proposal / Carlo Genova -- 2. For youth, prayer is relationship / Michael C. Mason -- 3. Pentecostal prayer as personal communication and invisible institutional work / Yannick Fer -- 4. Transcendence and immanence in public and private prayer / Martin Stringer -- 5. Prayer as a tool in Swedish Pentecostalism / Emir Mahieddin -- 6. Contrasting regimes of Sufi prayer and emotion work in the Indonesian Islamic revival / Julia Day Howell -- 7. A socio-anthropological analysis of forms of prayer among the Amish / Andrea Borella -- 8. Filipino Catholic students and prayer as conversation with God / Jayeel Serrano Cornelio -- 9. The embodiment of prayer in charismatic Christianity / Michael Wilkinson and Peter Althouse -- 10. Prayer requests in an English cathedral, and a new analytic framework for intercessory prayer / Tania ap Sion -- 11. An analysis of hospital chapel prayer requests / Peter Collins.