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‘God bless America’. Prayer as a political ritual in the USA
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rather than with the modern political life. But the religion is an important component of the present‑day culture in America. A good example of this is the modern use of prayer as a form of political action. The research concentrates on two different forms of religious prayer – ‘the civil prayer’ and ‘the imprecatory prayer’. As we will see, these two forms of confessional practice differ in almost everything, but they share a common political context.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/k.2013.20.1.139
Date of publication: 2013-03-05 00:00:00
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