Sentence examples for the study of prayer from inspiring English sources

Perhaps nowhere is this reassessment needed more than in the study of prayer and intention experiments.

What can the study of prayer tell us about social life, religious institutions and practices, ethical self-formation, and our concepts of communication, both shared and unique?

A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer, a two-day gathering that will showcase the work of over 30 scholars and journalists who have explored these questions and more.

Working with SSRC as both a recipient of a New Directions in the Study of Prayer grant through Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (full disclosure) and as a professor and creator of both academic content and mass-market religious and secular media, I have an inside opportunity to speak to some SSRC "early adopters".

The rabbinic program fashioned by Johanan ben Zakkai and his circle replaced sacrifice and pilgrimage to the Temple with the study of Scripture, prayer, and works of piety, thus eliminating the need for a central sanctuary (in Jerusalem) and making Judaism a religion capable of practice anywhere.

This line of analysis goes back to William James and the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, and today the scientific study of prayer is a growing field.

These findings suggest the need for further study of prayer and religious practices as used by older adults to cope with persistent pain, and the potential value for clinicians to inquire about this in understanding how their patients manage pain.

One significant flaw in the study of the effect of intercessory prayer on patients undergoing heart surgery is the assumption that the "proper" answer to prayer is always healing.

Many on the left and the right agree on one point: The bishops, who have already shut off discussion about ordaining women, are signaling that other long-debated questions about gender in the church — the choice of pronouns in prayers, the study of the male and female aspects of God — are substantially off-limits as well.

The goals of the Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) are to evaluate the effects of receipt of additional study IP and awareness of receipt of additional study IP on outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

This paper explores the current status of healing and intention research, citing a number of major studies and using the "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in Cardiac Bypass Surgery Patients: A Multicenter Randomized Trial of Uncertainty and Certainty of Receiving Intercessory Prayer" as a case study of this line of research.