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Bean, Heather Ann Ackley. "Fly Pretty Bird: An Appalachian Woman's Theodicy.," Religion Department, Claremont Graduate University, February 1997.
The problem of evil is related to Appalachian women’s faith, specifically this century’s migrants from central Appalachia to Ohio and their urban descendants. Using ethnographic and narrative theological methods, works considered include songs by Jean Ritchie and Hazel Dickens, The Spirit of the Mountains by Emma Bell Miles, folk art by Minnie Adkins and Cher Shaffer, and interviews by Howard Dorgan, Catherine Albanese, Troy Abell, Deborah McCauley, and Virginia Seitz. Themes of tragic love, faithfulness, and protest emerge from Appalachian women’s theographia, indicating that Appalachian women struggle with the problem of evil but choose faith in spite of their suffering.
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