{"id":3815,"date":"2012-02-13T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2012-02-13T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:56:59","slug":"survey-on-pagan-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3815","title":{"rendered":"Survey on Pagan Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evidently it’s the season for surveys. This one <\/a>comes from researchers at the University of Warwick.\u00a0 I recognize one of the names, a sociologist of religion who has published in The Pomegranate<\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n

If I take it, I will say that I do not engage in petitionary prayer very often, preferring to think in terms of invocation, of invitation, or of attuning one’s self to the deity’s “frequency,” so to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evidently it’s the season for surveys. This one comes from researchers at the University of Warwick.\u00a0 I recognize one of the names, a sociologist of religion who has published in The Pomegranate. If I take it, I will say that I do not engage in petitionary prayer very often, preferring to think in terms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,5,4],"class_list":["post-3815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-england","tag-paganism","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Zx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1670,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1670","url_meta":{"origin":3815,"position":0},"title":"Prayer-candle Experiments?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"At Egregores, an overview of the prayer-candle industry: \"First of all, the mass produced, low-cost nature of the Prayer Candle makes it an inviting template for experimentation. To the right kind of mind, every Prayer Candle has \"your crazy idea HERE\" emblazoned across it.\"","rel":"","context":"In \"American religion\"","block_context":{"text":"American religion","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=american-religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1160,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1160","url_meta":{"origin":3815,"position":1},"title":"Your Prayers, Our Magic–Do They Always Help?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a common argument among Pagans--Witches in particular--when conversing with monotheists to say something like, \"What you call prayer, we call spells,\" or words to that effect.No doubt we think ours are better. No one is testing them, but there have been a number of studies attempting to quantify the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=christianity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12608,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12608","url_meta":{"origin":3815,"position":2},"title":"Our Thanksgiving Prayer","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"M. and I have this little tradition where every Thanksgiving we read aloud (people who eat with us have to participate) Gary Snyder's poem \"Prayer for the Great Family.\"((He says it was inspired by a Mohawk prayer, but you can feel his Pagan-ish form of Zen Buddhism in it too.))\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Buddhism\"","block_context":{"text":"Buddhism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=buddhism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gary-snyer-quote.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gary-snyer-quote.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gary-snyer-quote.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=66","url_meta":{"origin":3815,"position":3},"title":"Watching the news . .\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 16, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching the news . . . Not surprisingly, The Drudge Report was first with this story, in tandem with Religion New Blog. It's right up both their alleys. I found it ironic that the woman herself, obviously not playing with a full deck (\"I had cut myself. I do that\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7009,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7009","url_meta":{"origin":3815,"position":4},"title":"New Poems by Sappho","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The possibility of deciphering the carbonized papyrus scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri is exciting. One friend hopes that some day an Etruscan\/Greek or Etruscan\/Latin dictionary will be discovered. (The Etruscan language used Greek letters, but we cannot completely read it, beyond some kings' names, etc.) Me, I hope\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Classics\"","block_context":{"text":"Classics","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=classics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.history.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/herculaneum-scrolls.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":291,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=291","url_meta":{"origin":3815,"position":5},"title":"Idol-worshiping Episcopalians Christianity Today reacts\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Idol-worshiping Episcopalians Christianity Today reacts to Pagan aspects of an Episcopal Church experiment with women's liturgy. Other conservative Christian bloggers chime in: check out the \"comments\" section of this blog. The ordination of women led to \"sexual narcissism,\" you see. It's been a long time--like 40 or 50 years--since the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}