Vinyl Prayers: A Curatorial Introduction
[Editor's Note: This essay resides within John Modern's "Vinyl Prayers," a portal into Reverberations' unfolding compendium of resources related to the study of prayer.] Prayer may be an act of...
View ArticleThe Lewis Family, “Turn Your Radio On” (1972)
Written by Albert E. Brumley, “Turn Your Radio On” is performed here by The Lewis Family, from Lincolnton, Georgia. This classic song delves underneath the circuits of prayer in a secular age. Prayer,...
View ArticleWestinghouse Sixth Future Power Forum Players, “Power Flower” (1969)
“Power Flower” was performed in 1969 at the Westinghouse Sixth Future Power Forum. The show, and the conference in which it was embedded, were prayerful in that they harnessed the themes of...
View ArticleMaxwell Maltz, Psycho-Cybernetics (1966)
A self-conscious addition to the postwar surge in self-help discourse, Psycho-Cybernetics was published in 1960. Claiming to have sold over one million copies by the mid-1960s, Maxwell Maltz’s...
View ArticlePrayer—The Christian’s Chief Business (1959)
In what amounts to mnemonic therapy, the brain is strengthened and the will is chastened in Prayer—The Christian’s Chief Business (Sacred Records). Sacred Records was started by Earle E. Williams in...
View ArticleHarlan Matthews, “Avenue of Prayer” and “I Heard My Mother Call My Name in...
Harlan Matthews was born in Mount Airy, NC in 1927. He recorded this album at Alexander’s Studio in Dry Run, Pennsylvania. As the liner notes to Songs of the Family Bible attest, Matthews took up...
View ArticleePrayer and Online Prayer Rituals
[Editor's Note: This essay resides within Anderson Blanton's "The Materiality of Prayer," a portal into Reverberations' unfolding compendium of resources related to the study of prayer.] Global...
View ArticlePrayers of a Phonographic Doll
[Editor's Note: This essay resides within Anderson Blanton's "The Materiality of Prayer," a portal into Reverberations' unfolding compendium of resources related to the study of prayer.] Dolls and...
View ArticleAnnouncing Why Prayer? A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer
The Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere announces Why Prayer? A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer (February 6-7, 2015). This two-day gathering...
View ArticleA Machine for the Production of Gods
Anderson Blanton (anthropology), postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, has spent the past several years researching how religious experience...
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