Week 39: An argument outline written

Maximum number of words:	80,000
Words typed so far:	64,103
Words typed this week:	3017
Words lost this week:	0
Total increase:	0
Days I managed to write this week:	3

Right this week has been like getting blood out  of a stone. I started out thinking that I would write the theory part of my chapter on worship. The problem is finding people to work with. On the other topics I have found people who have allowed me to think with the subject area although I might have had to search hard to find them, certainly I did with location and it was not until I realised that social geographers was a different way of looking at it that I found anything. However sociology of worship/liturgy/ritual is even harder. Firstly there seem to be very few specialists. Most people are either historians or professional liturgist first and then happen to write something with a sociological or psychological twist. I asked my supervisor last supervision and he indicated that it was just him and Kieran Flanagan at Bristol who is strongly Roman Catholic. Now one of the things the ethnographer in me notes when working in the field of sociology of Religion is their is a strong cultural divide in the understanding of Religion from those within a Roman Catholic milieux and those whose background is more Protestant in the way faith is conceived. This does not seem to have anything to do with belief of the individual.  I think I have found one or two other voices but it is taking time and I am finding far more comment on whether it can be done than people actually trying to do it.

I eventually broke the log jam I was having in getting anything written this morning by using Pomodoro Technique. I have used this in the past and found it useful but tend to want to work more freely. Great when the words are flowing but not when they are difficult to find. I find that telling myself I have only to concentrate for fifteen minutes more (or however long to the end of the Pomodoro) is often enough to stop me from getting distracted. I really must use it more often not just when I am facing deadlines.

This week I have a supervision and need desperately to get on with that section on theory of worship done. I might however try this week to write something on the relationship of what I have seen in worship and how that relates to the Reformed Tradition.