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The subjects of this study are minority groups who, though strong in belief, are frequently vulnerable as individual believers who are swimming against the prevailing consumerist current. I shall therefore discuss not only the means by which I gained access to informants and the manner in which I collected data, but also how I deliberated on what might be a feminist way to proceed with my research and the conclusions I reached. In the interviewing and follow-up process, like Donna Luff (1999) and Ann Phoenix (1994), I discovered that the interviewer is not always in a position of power and that there were converse issues of power for which the body of feminist theory on interviewing had not prepared me.
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This is the title of a book by D. Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven: Yale University Press 1950).
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Franks, M. (2001). Reflexive Methodology. In: Women and Revivalism in the West. Women’s Studies at York Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598102_3
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