The WG3 team, led by Dr Dominika Ruszkiewicz and Dr Lieke Smits, have run two successful online workshops, focused on sharing research across the group.
Organised by COST Action PRAYTICIPATE Working Group 3:
Immersive Realities of Prayer
May 13th & 15th 2025
May 13th 10.00-12.00 (CET)
10.00-10.30 Viktor Nedeski, “Hesychasm as a way of immersion in prayer, with an overview of theories of immersive prayer”
10.30-11.00 Vassilis Vavoulis, “Early modern rhetorical theory and its relation to immersion and performativity”
11.00-11.30 Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman, “Exploring the potential of practice-based methodologies”
11.30-12.00 Joana Dhiamandi & Konstantinos Giakoumis, “Death proximity, group cohesion and prayer”
May 15th 10.00-12.00 (CET)
10.00-10.30 Angel Manuel Olmos, “From cognitive flow to sacred encounter: An interdisciplinary survey of immersion theories in prayer”
10.30-11.00 Kathryn Rudy, “Signs of wear in prayerbooks: A taxonomy”
11.00-11.30 Marcin Polkowski, “Recollecting Mary’s life as prayerful immersion in the Middle Dutch devotional exercise Mary’s Mantle (Maria mantel)”
11.30-11.45 Caroline Gluchowski, update on grants
11.45-12.00 Next steps and final remarks