Praying Practices in Pentecostal Environment: A Universal Multicultural Model

The paper examines religious communication vertically as having a universal character, regarding believers' multi-ethnic affiliation and potential situational applications, by the example of praying practices among Russian Pentecostals. The emphasis on praying practice ensures including integration mechanisms into the community of neophytes, excluding the initial communion of believers and the correlation of the new spiritual experience with religious tradition. Participation in the praying practice has an adapting function legitimizing the turn to religious experience of the new (nontraditional) type, reducing the state of psychological discomfort, as well as from the inclusion process to the followers of a non-titular religion.