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- Etymology
- Act of prayer
- Origins and early history
- Aboriginal Australians
- North America
- Approaches to prayer
- Direct petitions
- Educational approach
- Rationalist approach
- Experiential approach
- Abrahamic religions
- Hebrew Bible
- New Testament
- Judaism
- Rationalist approach
- Educational approach
- Kabbalistic approach
- Christianity
- Pentecostalism
- Christian Science
- Islam
- Mandaeism
- Baháʼí Faith
- Eastern religions
- Buddhism
- Hinduism
- Sikhism
- Zoroastrianism
- New religious movements
- Prayer healing
- Efficacy of prayer healing
- Prevalence of prayer for health
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity or a deified ancestor. More generally, prayer can also have the purpose of giving thanks or praise, and in comparative religion is closely associated with more abstract forms of meditation and with charms or spells.