Prayer Taxonomy
A goal that I am working toward is the development of a prayer taxonomy. A complete prayer taxonomy will reflect an array of organizing principles that can flexibly categorize diverse types of prayer. These principles may include:
- mode
- medium
- intention
- activity
- attention
- content/qualia
- supernatural agent
- level of devotion
- self-reference
- bodily posture
- physical environment
- social context
- sacred items
- internal grace
- physiological state effects
- historical tradition
working page for Prayer Taxonomy
Prayer Science
I am striving to incorporate empirical data and scientific perspectives into a multidisciplinary, integrative study of prayer. This will be a long-term effort. This long-term effort in prayer science is work that I will be conducting through my Neurospirituality Lab and my forthcoming Neurospirituality Institute.
Prayer Theology
The integrative study of prayer that I am undertaking aims to systematically represent both the speculative and the mystical dimensions of prayer theology.