Backgrounds and Consequences Application of Prayer Healing and Divination Sample study of educated women in Rasht

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
sara aflaki arbani 1
hossein serajzade 2
fatemeh javaheri 3
1 department of sociology, faculty of literature and humanities, university of kharazmi, tehran, iran
2 Department of Sociology,Faculty of Literature and Humanities,kharazmi University,Tehran,Iran
3 Department of Sociology,Faculty of Literature and Humanities,kharazmi University,tehran,iran
10.22034/jcsc.2020.104632.1865
Abstract
The purpose of the present article is to identify the conditions for the study of PrayerHealing and Divination among educated women in Rasht based on their lived experience and narrative.. For this purpose, qualitative method by application of grounded theory were used to data analyze.Information was collected using semi-structured interview technique and purposeful sampling. collected by semi-structured interview techniques and purposive sampling. Selection of 16 interviewees continued until theoretical saturation. After analyzing the data, 66 concepts and 16 major categories, and ultimately 9 final categories were deduced. The findings indicate that socialization, terrestrial and other-worldly culture, psychological tendencies, divination and pray healing modernization and the role of reference group serve as the conditional categories. In this category, action space and tricks and techniques are two interactive categories. Problems and some potential damages are the most important consequence of going to places of prayer and forgery. Finally, extracted issues were placed in relation to each other, and The core category emerged as "helplessness and Supernatural Beliefs "

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Cultural Studies & Communication
Volume 16, Issue 61
Winter 2021
Pages 97-120