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Prayer (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on prayer across religious traditions, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on prayer across religious traditions, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a broad comparative overview. NotesWikipedia's article on prayer, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for its cross-tradition survey of prayer posture, the fixed-hour versus spontaneous distinction, and its summary of controlled clinical trials on intercessory prayer, standard reference facts drawn from the article's own citations to that trial literature.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer
Source Typereference
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