Burdick ctd

Suggests that some women go to more than one place not because they are shoping around but in "each place she can articulate her predicament in a slightly different way, emphasising different aspects of the problem"¹ (167) Catholicism: guilt and resignation Pentecastolism: spiritual warfare Umbanda: Anger and resentment.²

1J Burdick, “Gossip and Secrecy: Women's Articulation of Domestic Conflict in Three Religions of Urban Brazil,” Sociological Analysis51:2153–170, 167.

2J Burdick, “Gossip and Secrecy: Women's Articulation of Domestic Conflict in Three Religions of Urban Brazil,” Sociological Analysis51:2153–170, 167.