Burdick ctd

"distinguish between the relatively simple act of bringing a problem to a religious specialist and the more complicated act of religious conversion. The first step toward conversion is almost always the act of bringing a problem, but bringing a problem does not always end in conversion." ¹

1J Burdick, “Gossip and Secrecy: Women's Articulation of Domestic Conflict in Three Religions of Urban Brazil,” Sociological Analysis51:2153–170, 155.