"theodicity" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002, John Berdell, International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies, →ISBN:",
          "text": "It is probably because I have almost entirely ignored Malthus's theodicity — the theological aspects and implications of his political economy — that I find his case so much harder to express.",
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          "ref": "2003, Daniel Dubuisson, The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Implicitly, this theodicity of progress, coming as reward to the hardworking, entrepreneurial West, presupposed a harmonious vision of the world, again in the fashion of traditional cosmogonies, always organized and hierarchized.",
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          "ref": "2012, Wadada Nabudere, Afrikology and Transdisciplinarity: A Restorative Epistemology, →ISBN, page 95:",
          "text": "This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations.",
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          "ref": "2015, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In short, according to Max Weber, there is a nearly universal tendency for religions of the upper strata to develop a theodicity that legitimates the good fortune of the rich and privileged and the ill fortune of the poor, arguing that rich and poor alike merit their status in life.",
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        "Alternative form of theodicy"
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          "ref": "2002, John Berdell, International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies, →ISBN:",
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          "ref": "2003, Daniel Dubuisson, The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Implicitly, this theodicity of progress, coming as reward to the hardworking, entrepreneurial West, presupposed a harmonious vision of the world, again in the fashion of traditional cosmogonies, always organized and hierarchized.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, Wadada Nabudere, Afrikology and Transdisciplinarity: A Restorative Epistemology, →ISBN, page 95:",
          "text": "This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations.",
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          "ref": "2015, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In short, according to Max Weber, there is a nearly universal tendency for religions of the upper strata to develop a theodicity that legitimates the good fortune of the rich and privileged and the ill fortune of the poor, arguing that rich and poor alike merit their status in life.",
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