 | 354 pages
...West explains in his report of gossip in Plainville, and as one might reiterate of Kehillat Kodesh, "People report, suspect, laugh at, and condemn the...being caught in any trifling missteps of their own," thereby protecting their selves at the same time that they point to the liabilities of others through... | |
 | Chaim I. Waxman - 2001 - 236 pages
...churches set up. The religious control of morals operates mainly through gossip and the tear of gossip. People report, suspect, laugh at, and condemn the...and walk and behave carefully to avoid being caught m any trifling missteps of their own. (West 1945, p. 162) Social control of this sort is no longer... | |
 | Suzanne Last Stone - 2006 - 206 pages
...churches set up. The religious control of morals operates mainly through gossip and the fear of gossip. People report, suspect, laugh at, and condemn the...caught in any trifling missteps of their own. (West 1945, 162) Social control of this sort is no longer feasible, if for no other reason than the increasing... | |
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Yet religion seems to permeate the daily air, not as a stress on discriminating the "saved" from the sinners. . .but as a vital concern with the negations on moral conduct which the churches set up. The religious control of morals operates mainly through... 