Prayer Machines: Case Studies in a Secular Age
My project examines the profound effect that technological forms (material, conceptual, linguistic, epistemic) have had, and continue to have, on the practice and study of prayer. My project addresses:...
View ArticleSensory Spirituality: Prayer as Transformative Practice in Eastern Christianity
Co-Principal Investigators include Jeffers Engelhardt, Angie Heo, Jeanne Kormina , Vlad Naumescu, Daria Dubovka, and Simion Pop. What does it take to pray well, and how does a regular practice of...
View ArticleHammering the Devil with Prayer (Prayer to Relieve Affliction from Evil Spirits)
This project is a comparative ethnographic study of Roman Catholic prayer for exorcism, a form of ritual healing prayer performed by a priest and the aim of which is relief from affliction by evil...
View ArticlePedagogies of Prayer among St. Thomas Christians in South India
Bread of Life: The Word/The Silence Directed by Klára Trencsényi and Vlad Naumescu. India/Hungary, 2014 The Bread of Life series consists of two short documentaries about modes of Christian devotion...
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