On Prayer

by Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians.

Here, the first English translation to be published, is preceded by a general introduction by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157181633X
• ISBN13: 9781571816337
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"