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Title:
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Prayer and symbolisation in an Irish Catholic community
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Author:
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Salazar i Carrasco, Carles
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Notes:
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The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of prayer in the everyday
life of an Irish Catholic community. Prayers are mental acts that need to be
actualised following detailed instructions. This is so because prayers have to be
“authentic”, which means that there has to be a correspondence between the
act of praying and the mental state of believing. Due to the fact that mental
states are by definition invisible, the argument of this paper is that that correspondence
can only be symbolised by the very special characteristics of the act
of praying. By stressing the symbolic nature of the act of praying, an alternative
to recent cognitive approaches to the analysis of ritualisation is also suggested |
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Subject(s):
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-Pregària
-Simbolisme
-Església Catòlica
-Cultura irlandesa |
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Rights:
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(c) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 2008
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Document type:
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article
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Published by:
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
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