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Origins and early history
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Abrahamic religions
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Eastern religions
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Approaches to prayer
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Overview
- Invocation
- Rapport
- Communication
- Supplication
- Intercession
- Deity
- Ancestor Ancestor worship
- Thanks Gratitude
- Praise Christian worship
- Comparative religion
- Meditation
- Incantation
- Liturgy
- Ritual
- Hymn
- Creedal Creed
- Religions Religion
- Efficacy of prayer
- Faith healing
- Maimonides
- Yehuda Halevy
- Joseph Albo
- Samson Raphael Hirsch
- Joseph Dov Soloveitchik
- Nosson Scherman
- Artscroll
- Kabbalah
- Kavanot Kavanah
- Pentecostal Pentecostalism
- Glossolalia
Etymology
- Medieval Latin Medieval Latin language
- Lit. Literal translation
- Vulgate
- Septuagint
- Biblical Hebrew
Act of prayer
- Grace Grace (prayer)
- Native Americans Native Americans in the United States
- Swaying Shuckling
- Muslim
- Prostration
- Sufis Sufism
- Whirl Sufi whirling
- Friedrich Heiler
- Ghusl
- Wudhu
- Anointing with oil
- Incense
- Mecca
- The East Ad orientem
- Sign of the cross
- Fasting
- Hands folded or clasped Hand clasping
- Holding hands
- Blessing of a meal Grace (meals)
Origins and early history
- Surrender Submission
- Animism
- Shaman
- Trance
- Astrology
- Fortune tellers Fortune telling
- Kesh temple hymn
- Pyramid Texts
- Spells Spell (ritual)
- Magical thinking
- Human cultural universal
- Behavioral modernity
- Anthropologists Anthropology
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- James George Frazer
- Polytheistic Polytheism
- Iron Age
- Ancient Greek religion
- Roman religion Religion in ancient Rome
- Bronze Age religions Prehistoric religion
- Euhemerism
- Shinto
- Vietnamese folk religion
- Chinese folk religion Chinese ancestor worship
- Japanese Buddhism
- Kami
- Votive offering
- Ema Ema (Shintō)
- Etruscan Etruscan language
- Augurs Augur
Approaches to prayer
- Atheist
- Daniel Dennett
- Christian Scientists
- Christopher Hitchens
- Ambrose Bierce
- Yehuda Halevi
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik
- Siddur
- E.M. Bounds Edward McKendree Bounds
- Book of Common Prayer
- Logos
- Rhemata Rhema
- Allah
- Abrahamic religions
- Islam
- Orthodox Christianity Eastern Orthodox Church
- Hasidic Judaism
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Aristotle
- Hinduism
- Sadhus Sadhu
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Hesychasm
- Sufi
- Mysticism
- Contemplation
- Lectio divina
- Benedictine
- Contemplation Lectio Divina
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
Abrahamic religions
- God
- Deuteronomy
- Form practiced Tefillah
- Jews
- Isaac
- Moses
- Samuel
- Job Job (Biblical figure)
- Hannah Hannah (Bible)
- Hezekiah
- People of God
- Christian prayer
- God God in Christianity
- Jesus
- Disciples Disciple (Christianity)
- Paternoster Lord's Prayer
- Pharisees
- Evangelists Evangelism
- Christian sects Christian sect
- Book of James
- Blessings Blessing
- Shacharit
- Mincha
- Ma'ariv
- Shabbat
- Jewish holidays
- Musaf
- Torah
- Minyan
- Orthodox Judaism
Eastern religions
- Buddhism
- Mantras Mantra
- Jesus prayer
- Gayatri Mantra
- Savitr
- Pavamana Mantra
- Soma Pavamana Soma (drink)
- Dhāraṇī
- Bodhisattva
- Om mani padme hum
- Sound symbolism
- Om
- Aitareya Brahmana
- Vedas
- Theravada
- Mahayana
- Zen
- Chán
- Skillful means Upāya
- Pariṇāmanā
- Evocation
- Pure Lands Pure Land
- Nirmānakāya Trikaya
- Mandala
- Mindfulness Mindfulness (Buddhism)
- Karmic creditors Karma in Buddhism
- Bodhi
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Guru yoga
- Yidam
New religious movements
- Wiccan Wicca
- Esbat
- Sabbat Wheel of the Year
- Raëlism
- Eckankar
- Theurgy
- Western esotericism
- Hermetic Qabalah
- Thelema
- Magick Magick (Aleister Crowley)
Prayer healing
- Religious
- Spiritual Spirituality
- Disease
- Meta-studies Meta-study
- Studies on intercessory prayer
- Francis Galton
- Statistical Statistics
- Confounding
- Double-blind
- Mayo Clinic
- American Heart Journal
- Cardiac bypass
- Alternative medicine
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- National Institutes of Health
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Prayer
Nodes370
Edges369
Triples401
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005405
Components1
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Prayer
Top relations
related to Further reading · 51
Prayer → Alphonsus, Bellarmine, Benziger Brothers, Burns, Catholic Encyclopedia, Catholic Religion, Chapter, Chapter XXX, Charles, Christ, Christian, Colloquy, Complete Catechism, Death, Deharbe, Dying Well, Eleventh Sunday, Fauss, Horstius, III
related to Islam · 22
Prayer → Al-Fatiha, Allāhu Akbar, Arabic, Certain Shi'a, During, God, God's, Great, Hadith, Islam, It, Kaaba, Mecca, Muslim, Muslims, Once, Peace, Qur'an, Shi'a Islam, The
related to Eastern religions · 21
Prayer → Aitareya Brahmana, Buddhism, Buddhist, Buddhist Dhāraṇī, Buddhists, Gayatri Mantra, Hindu, Hinduism, However, In, Jesus, Many, Maṇipadma, Most, Om, Pavamana Mantra, Savitr, Soma Pavamana, The, Vedas
related to Hinduism · 20
Prayer → Again, Brahma, God, God Brahman, Hinduism, Hindus, Indeed, India, Krishna, Rama, Ritual, Sanskrit, Shiva, These, Typically, Vedas, Vedic, Vishnu, Vishnu's, While
related to Christianity · 19
Prayer → Agpeya, Anglican Book, Apostolic Tradition, Breviaries, Christ's Passion, Christian, Christianity, Christians, Common Prayer, Hippolytus, In, Jesus, Lord's Prayer, Matthew, Oriental Orthodox Christians, Shehimo, The, The Lord's Prayer, They
related to Rationalist approach · 19
Prayer → Abrahamic, Allah, Among, Aristotle, Christian, First, God, Hasidic Judaism, Hellenistic, In, Islam, Islamic, It, Jesus, Jewish, Maimonides, Orthodox Christianity, This, Thus
related to Educational approach · 18
Prayer → Among Christian, Among Jews, Artscroll Siddur, Book, Bounds, Common Prayer, In, Joseph, Joseph Albo, Rabbenu Bachya, Rabbi Nosson Scherman, Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, Rather, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Soloveitchik, The Necessity, This, XIII
related to Hebrew Bible · 18
Prayer → Bible, Bible's, Deuteronomy, God, Hannah, Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah, In, Individual, Isaac, Jews, Job, Many, Moses, Samuel, Standardized, Tanakh, The
related to Sikhism · 18
Prayer → Akal Purakh, Arazdashat, Ardas, Ardās, Banis, God, Guru Gobind Singh, In Sikhism, Paath, Persian, Punjabi, Sikh, Sikh Guru, The, The Ardas, The Ardās, Waheguru, When
related to Judaism · 14
Prayer → Communal, Jew, Jewish, Jews, Ma'ariv, Mincha, Musaf, Observant Jews, Orthodox Judaism, Shabbat, Shacharit, The, There, Torah
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prayer | is a | invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication | 0.90 | text |
| Prayer | is a | evolving means of interacting with God | 0.90 | text |
| Prayer | is a | model for prayers of adoration | 0.90 | text |
| Prayer | is a | spiritualization of thought or an understanding of God and of the nature of the underlying spiritual creation | 0.90 | text |
| Prayer | is a | mindful activity | 0.90 | text |
| Prayer | is a | plea to God to support and help the devotee with whatever he or she is about to undertake or has done.The Ardas is usually always done standing up with folded hands | 0.90 | text |
| Prayer | is a | appeal to Waheguru for his protection and care | 0.90 | text |
| Sir Edward Burnett Tylor | instance of | by anthropologists | 0.80 | text |
| Sir James George Frazer.Reliable records are available for the polytheistic religions of the Iron Age | instance of | by anthropologists | 0.80 | text |
| most notably Ancient Greek religion | instance of | by anthropologists | 0.80 | text |
| which strongly influenced Roman religion | instance of | by anthropologists | 0.80 | text |
| connection to country | instance of | cultural values | 0.80 | text |
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