Why People Pray: The Universal Power of Prayer [Paperback]

What is prayer?? The question is rather straightforward, but with a bit of consideration you might find there is no easy answer.? InWhy People Pray, Rabbi Mordecai Schreiber examines this elusive nature of prayer, as well as the history of formal prayer and how it has been shapedand continues to be shapedby an era of unprecedented globalization.

At the heart ofWhy People Prayis that very question:? whydowe pray?? What is it that compels us to have faith, or to give it up?? Why do we continue to believe in a higher power in spite of discrimination, conflict, illness, and loss?

Rabbi Schreibers book introduces a fascinating new supposition:? that people of all faiths and all nationalities could conceivably find ways to pray together; using prayers that are universal to all while simultaneously preserving the integrity of each individual faith.? He proposes a new approach to prayer, in which the spiritual adherents of the worlds religions come together to formulate a universal expression of prayer that does not replace existing creeds, but rathertranscendsall creeds and gives voice to humanitys yearning for peace, freedom, and social justice.

What is prayer? The question is rather straightforward, but with a bit of consideration you might find there is no easy answer. InWhy People Pray, Rabbi Mordecai Schreiber examines this elusive nature of prayer, as well as the history of formal prayer and how it has been shapedand continues to be shapedby an era of unprecedented globalization.

At the heart ofWhy People Prayis that very question:? whydowe pray? What is it that compels us to have faith, or to give it up? Why do we continue to believe in a higher power in spite of discrimination, conflict, illness, and loss?

Rabbi Schreibers book introduces a fascinating new supposition:? that people of all faiths and all nationalities could conceivably find ways to pray together; using pl=