Talk about Prayer is an experiment in writing ethnography, a commentary on a conversation with Mama Régine Tshitanda, the leader of a Charismatic prayer group (groupe de prière) in Lubumbashi (Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo) and members of her family in 1986.

Autorentext

Johannes Fabian is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Inhalt

1. Into the Past: Global Charismatic Renewal and Local Survival 2. Back to the Present: A Text 3. Lives, Visions, and Voices 4. Praying 5. Local Survival 6. Questions