Doing Theodicy

The study of a weekly women's prayer group in a small northern English town discusses how participants resolve tensions which may arise from unanswered prayer. The most important mechanism in that process is the informal 'chatting' which precedes the period of formal prayer. The author concludes that women actively conduct a 'ritual of theodicy' to rescue their worldview from chaos. The participants maintain that they are directed by God's wisdom, not by their own actions

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  Open Access•Lihi Ben Shitrit•Women and the Holy City•2020

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• Factor analysis and validation of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief-RCOPE) in Iranian university students

  Ali Mohammadzadeh, Mahmoud Najafi•Mental Health Religion & Culture•2016

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• De l'affliction à la prédication

  Open Access•Christophe Monnot•Social Compass•2009

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• Believing in belonging

  A Day•Culture and Religion•2009

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• Keepin’ it Real

  Daniel Nilsson Dehanas•Journal of Contemporary Religion•2013

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• Wilfully Disempowered

  Open Access•A Day•European Journal of Women s Studies•2008

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• Propositions and performativity

  A Day•Scottish journal of religious…•2010

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  L Woodhead•Travail genre et sociétés•2012

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• Feminist methods in social research

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• Sharing the journey

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  Emile Durkheim•The elementary forms of the…•1915

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• The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion

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• God's Daughters

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• The sacred canopy

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• Ritual

  Frederick Bird, Catherine Bell•Ritual•1997

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• Doing Gender

  Open Access•Candace West, Don H Zimmerman•Gender & Society•1987

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