This landmark work presents prayer in all its richness and variety throughout history, across traditions, and around the globe. In a thorough and f...
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Dec 20, 2009
John
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Meh. A sort of strange tour of the history of prayer through the lens of many traditions. In trying to accomplish everything, though, Zaleski hasn't really accomplished that much. The book is interesting enough, but doesn't take faith (as opposed to spirituality) seriously enough to make the book go anywhere. It's basically what the NY Times would do if it was tasked with writing such a history. Well written, but in the end too disinterested with the subject and interested with the writing
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Aug 25, 2007
Corey
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Reading this book is like hearing joyous whisperings of ecstasy in our ears. I could best describe this book as a welcome update and more-enthralling reading of William James, "The Varieties of Religious Experience" (in fact, the authors self-describe the book as taking on a Jamesian perspective). At the end, the authors offer a suprising interpretation on the history of prayer research - while the empirical evidence on hand suggests that prayer doesn't work in a measurable way, the
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Feb 26, 2011
Eric
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The nice thing about this book is that it shares lots of little biographies of great people in the world of faith history. The authors present material from several various faith perspectives, which allows the reader to get a bigger picture of how prayer affects humanity.
The not so nice thing is that it was kind of long and hard to keep your attention on it for more than a few good pages at a time.
The not so nice thing is that it was kind of long and hard to keep your attention on it for more than a few good pages at a time.
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