...This chapter describes Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which was an enormous critical and financial success in the mid-1960s. After the release of In Cold Blood Capote collected his materials and started writing Answered Prayers. He described...

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... for the dead Purgatory Hell Burial Creation doctrine of Treatment ordinary vs extraordinary Augustine death fear of death soul suicide theology of death homicide prayers for the dead separated soul Ambrose and Augustine lived in the last days of the ancient Latin civilization, prior...

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...This section contains four separate prayers, known in Latin as Quattuor orationes, that were composed by St. Birgitta in praise of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. They may date back to Birgitta’s early life and may have been used in her daily devotions throughout her visionary...

...This chapter describes Coffin's life in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which was structured by the rhythms of the church and academic calendar. He preached most Sundays during the school year, gave baccalaureate and commencement prayers, counseled students on personal and draft-related issues...

...This chapter examines how prayer books represented a particular theology and practice of prayer; they were a crucial part of the material and devotional culture of Anglicanism. By the last decade of the century, Anglicans' sturdy defenses of liturgical prayer, and their concomitant critiques...

... into the activities of village healers and cunning folk, and with the counter-magic used by ordinary people. The fact that they used spells and charms based on garbled versions of old Catholic prayers shows that the witches and their clients remained untouched by Puritan campaigns of reformation, carrying down...

...This chapter describes the following liturgical texts: prayers (the Shema liturgy, the Amidah prayer); Piyyutim by the following authors Yose ben Yose, Yannai, Elazar BeRabbi Qallir, Hadutahu and Shimon bar Megas; and synagogue prayers in Greek...

...This chapter provides an overview of a day in Bruce White's life. White starts and ends his days with meditations and prayers, mostly dedicated to other people than just himself. One Thanksgiving weekend, someone broke into his office and stole more than $2000 of rent money meant for people...

.... It also reviews poetical compositions on the soul or on the wonders of nature that may be contemplated with devotional intent, and specific compositions whose direct address to the deity indisputably marks them as prayers. The chapter looks at Solomon Ibn Gabirol's 'Keter malkhut' which found its way...

...This chapter considers if there is evidence of divine inspiration in Hasidic prayer. To that end, this chapter explores a handful of Hasidic literature which point to the phenomenon in which words proceed automatically from the mouths of men who are unconscious, or appear to be unconscious, of what...

...” in which the practical use of prayers, blessings, and appropriated sacramental items might signal either admirable faith or damnable superstition. clergy healing rites Werner of Friedberg Germany and central Europe universities University of Heidelberg Aquinas Thomas astral magic Gerson Jean...

...This chapter considers how Nahuatl and Maya religious texts conveyed the basic tenets of the Catholic faith. The Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Creed appeared in a variety of Nahuatl and Maya texts. Although such doctrines occasionally became obscured through translation...

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... is questioned. The cultural formation and development of the traditions of hymnody or operatic prayers, and how they retain their influence today, are examined. Byron George Gordon Lord Rousseau Jean Jacques Beethoven Ludwig van Browning Robert Haydn Franz Joseph Eliot T Wagner Richard Brahms Johannes...

...Prayers, forms of worship, and other spiritual practices are present in firsthand accounts of the circum-Caribbean migratory sphere. Turning to the realm of popular culture, this chapter reconstructs the practices through which migrants sought help and protection from the spirit world. It begins...

...Chapter 5 chiefly focuses on how young Muslims come to learn about Islam. It examines what the processes and institutions are for shaping their Islamic knowledge and influencing their practices. This chapter also looks into how the adolescents manage to learn about their prayers at home, read...

...This chapter considers the question of hermits in the world by examining the inclusion in the Additional 37049 of a complex of popular prayers that use liturgical texts and images to enact piety. It suggests that the words and pictures combined in this manuscript reproduce liturgical practices...

... expected to receive or believed they had received and explains that the phrase “brides of Christ” refers to those who could stand the rigor of a disciplined life without sex and devote themselves not only to their own personal salvation, but also to help and benefit others with their prayers. Nuns...