Download or read book Prayer as Memory written by David L. Reinhart and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a comparative study of prayer look like? If the human impulse is to survive by thinking and acting religiously, Reinhart says religion is born on the day prayer first finds breath. He discusses prayer as a discourse since that first day that is speech out of brokenness or suffering is expressed in the hope of something more. Through his engagement with theorists of language and memory (Habermas, Derrida, Metz, Ricoeur, and others), Reinhart develops a framework that sustains an innovative approach to apocalyptical thought that also lays the foundation for a new field: the comparative study of prayer.