Prayer | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-20

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer


00:01:01 1 Etymology
00:01:25 2 Act of prayer
00:04:32 3 Origins and early history
00:10:53 4 Approaches to prayer
00:11:03 4.1 Direct petitions
00:12:09 4.2 Educational approach
00:13:01 4.3 Rationalist approach
00:13:44 4.4 Experiential approach
00:18:27 5 Abrahamic religions
00:18:37 5.1 Hebrew Bible
00:19:53 5.2 New Testament
00:21:12 5.3 Judaism
00:22:19 5.3.1 Rationalist approach
00:23:18 5.3.2 Educational approach
00:23:57 5.3.3 Kabbalistic approach
00:24:54 5.4 Christianity
00:27:18 5.4.1 Pentecostalism
00:28:09 5.4.2 Christian Science
00:29:16 5.5 Islam
00:30:59 5.6 Bahá'í
00:31:53 6 Eastern religions
00:33:00 6.1 Buddhism
00:36:39 6.2 Hinduism
00:38:27 6.3 Sikhism
00:40:32 7 New religious movements
00:43:50 8 Prayer healing
00:45:55 8.1 Efficacy of prayer healing
00:52:12 8.2 Efficacy of prayer for fertility
00:52:34 8.3 Prevalence of prayer for health
00:53:09 9 See also
00:53:18 10 Notes
00:53:27 11 References and footnotes
00:53:37 12 External links



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SUMMARY
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Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship, typically a deity,  through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity, or a deified ancestor. More generally, prayer can also have the purpose of thanksgiving or praise, and in comparative religion is closely associated with more abstract forms of meditation and with charms or spells.Prayer can take a variety of forms: it can be part of a set liturgy or ritual, and it can be performed alone or in groups. Prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, formal creedal statement, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person.
Today, most major religions involve prayer in one way or another; some ritualize the act, requiring a strict sequence of actions or placing a restriction on who is permitted to pray, while others teach that prayer may be practised spontaneously by anyone at any time.