Christian Prayer and the Local Congregation: A Social Analysis of Individual Prayer Petitions

Reading Other People’s Prayers: A Pilot Study around a Prayer Tree at a Church Christmas Tree Festival

“…The methods illustrate the breadth and variety of prayer (Woodhead, 2015). The fields of study have included hospital chapels (ap Siôn & Nash, 2013;Cadge & Daglian, 2008;Collins, 2015;Grossoehme, 1996;Grossoehme, Jacobson, Cotton, Ragsdale, VanDyke, & Seid, 2011;Hancocks & Lardner, 2007;Langford, 2015;O'Reilly, 1995O'Reilly, , 2000, churches (ap Siôn, 2007(ap Siôn, , 2008(ap Siôn, , 2009(ap Siôn, , 2010(ap Siôn, , 2011Brown & Burton, 2007;Burton, 2009Burton, , 2010Lukenbill & Young, 2020;Schmeid, 2002) and cathedrals (ap Siôn, 2013(ap Siôn, , 2015a(ap Siôn, , 2015b(ap Siôn, , 2015c(ap Siôn, , 2017. The prayer requests collected by Church of England bishops on the street as part of a Lent initiative have also been studied (ap Siôn & Edwards, 2013), as have prayers left on certain Church of England internet sites (ap Siôn & Edwards, 2012;ap Siôn, 2016).…”