To pray: a socio-religious action (Review on " pray -studies" literature)

Praying is a socio-religious action, either from “religious sociology” (religious looking on society) or” sociology of religion” (sociological looking on religion).This social and spiritual action has few features: it is an effective action, for its positive implication on prayer’s everyday life; it is a continued action, for it is current in all dimensions of prayer’s activities; and finally, it is an encompassing action for its sovereignty on all prayer’s life events.
For these reasons, religious pray is an important and strategic social and cultural action, that linking among religiosity dimensions. It means that, praying action relate to religious belief, rituals, experience, knowledge as well as morals.
Therefore, in this article we concentrate on trio key questions:1) what is the social philosophy of pray?2) what is the meanings and themes of religious pray ?;3)what is the discursive foot prints in Islamic – Shiites’ pray?.
Then, for empirical answering to these, we use from “secondary analysis” (SA) and “content analysis” (CA) methods of pray – studies literature in English as well as Persian languages.
Our findings show that:A) Abrahamic pray is symbol of religiosity.
B) Islamic pray is symbol of communicate- with- ALLAH.
C) Shiite pray is symbol of political ideology and social consciousness.