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key	F6WG2MUV
title	Prayer as Remembrance
author	White, Christopher
authority control	Christopher White
item type	Book section
publication year	2002
date	2002
publication title	Reason & Revelation : New Directions in Bahá'í Thought
abstract note	This essay attempts to describe practices of Bahá'í prayer in a way that will help both Bahá'ís and scholars of religion better understand and interpret these practices. I begin by borrowing from the Bahá'í scriptures what appears to be an important way of talking about Bahá'í prayer: prayer is a process of "remembering." The author then moves on to an extended reflection on prayer as "remembrance," examining several ways that understanding Bahá'í prayer as remembrance might help interpreters of Bahá'í worship better understand Bahá'í conceptions of God, human nature, and the divine-human relationship. The author suggests that prayer in the Bahá'í tradition is a process of first understanding and then overcoming the problematic gap between the human and divine worlds. IThe author then points out that the obligatory prayers can be understood as a particularly efficacious practic of (literally) "re-membering" self, God, and the divine-human relationship. Obligatory prayers are, in Bahá'í language, of "special potency and significance" because they enlist both mind and body in a discipline of remembering.
pages	83-97
series	Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions
series number	v.13
publisher	Kalimát Press
place	Los Angeles, CA
language	English
manual tags	PRAYER; DHIKR
editor	Fazel, Seena; Danesh, John

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