Relating Through Prayer: Identity Formation in Early Christianity

This book investigates the interplay between prayer and identity formation and the socializing character of Christian prayer: how prayer established a relationship between the individual and God; how other social relations were reinforced by prayer; and how the individual Christian was connected to his/her own self in prayer.

Maria Louise Munkholt Christensen studied Protestant Theology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and earned her PhD degree at the same university in 2015. She is presently engaged in postdoctoral research at the Collaborative Research Centre «Education and Religion» at the University of Göttingen, Germany. In her current project she investigates late antique Christian texts that feature women as teachers.