Gossip and Secrecy: Women's Articulation of Domestic Conflict in Three Religions of Urban Brazil
In this paper I discuss how women in a Brazilian working-class town choose among the Catholic Church, pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian umbanda when seeking religious help in coping with domestic conflict. I argue that umbanda and pentecostalism, as cults of affliction in which blame for domestic c...
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1990
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1990, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-170 |
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