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Feminization of the Clergy in America: Occupational and Organizational Perspectives » Read Now
by Paula D. Nesbitt. 294 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Feminization is said to occur when women enter any given occupation in substantial numbers, and ostensibly leads to such dynamics as sex-segregation, reduced opportunities for men, and depressed wages and diminished prestige for the occupation as a whole. Spanning more than 70 years, Paula Nesbitt's...
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Feminization is said to occur when women enter any given occupation in substantial numbers, and ostensibly leads to such dynamics as sex-segregation, reduced opportunities for men, and depressed wages and diminished prestige for the occupation as a whole. Spanning more than 70 years, Paula Nesbitt's study of feminization concentrates on the Episcopal Church and the Unitarian Universalist Association, utilizing both statistical results and interviews to compare occupational patterns prior and subsequent to the large influx of women clergy. Among her findings, the author discovers that a decline in men's opportunities is evident before the 1970s, preceding the great influx of women over the last two decades. She also finds that increases in the number of women ordained reduced occupational prospects for other women, but enhanced those for men, thus contradicting the popular myth that women in the workplace are responsible for occupational decline.
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Clergy Women and Their Worldviews: Calling for a New Age » Read Now
by Martha Long Ice. 214 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This insightful volume provides an in-depth study of the backgrounds, professional role formation, worldviews, and ministerial leadership styles of 17 clergywomen. Clergywomen and Their Worldviews offers both group insights and metaphors helpful in understanding the actualities and ideals of...
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This insightful volume provides an in-depth study of the backgrounds, professional role formation, worldviews, and ministerial leadership styles of 17 clergywomen. Clergywomen and Their Worldviews offers both group insights and metaphors helpful in understanding the actualities and ideals of institutional change. Employing sociological theory, such topics as gender orientations, establishing authority, stratification, and cultural belief systems are also discussed. As women increasingly emerge as a force in religious institutions, students of women's studies, religion, anthropology, and sociology will welcome this timely investigation of clergywomen.
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Holy Women, Wholly Women: Sharing Ministries of Wholeness through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography » Read Now
by Elaine J. Lawless. 300 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...0-8122-8240-X. -- ISBN 0-8122-1444-7 1. Women clergy -- United States. I. Title. II...excursions into the field in search of women clergy in mainline denominations...
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Christianity and Womanhood: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities (Chap. 5 "Women in Christian Service") » Read Now
by Wyatt M. Rogers, Jr. 120 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Rogers explores the current and historical status and roles of women as providers and recipients of Christian ministries. The burgeoning needs of women in society are examined along with the obstacles and opportuniites for women as vocational ministers of the Gospel.
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Handmaidens of the Lord: Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion » Read Now
by Elaine J. Lawless. 274 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...0-8122-8100-4. ISBN 0-8122-1265-7 pbk. 1. Women clergy--Missouri. 2. Pentecostal churches...churches in the state, education of clergy, size of congregation, etc. It...
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Prophetic vs. Priestly Religion: The Changing Role of Women Clergy in Classical Pentecostal Churches, in Review of Religious Research » Read Now
by Gerald T. Sheppard, Charles H. Barfoot. 16 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...RELIGION: THE CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN CLERGY IN CLASSICAL PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES1...applicable in understanding the role of women clergy in classical Pentecostalism...
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Research on Lay Church Members Attitudes Toward Women Clergy: An Assessment, in Review of Religious Research » Read Now
by Edward C. Lehman, Jr. 11 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...CHURCH MEMBERS ATTITUDES TOWARD WOMEN CLERGY: AN ASSESSMENT Edward C. Lehman...church members display toward women clergy. The evidence to date indicates...perspectives...
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Rabbis, Lawyers, Immigrants, Thieves: Exploring Women's Roles (Chap. 6 "Rabbis and Ministers: Women of the Book and the Cloth") » Read Now
by Rita J. Simon. 255 pgs.

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Simon explores the diverse and changing roles of women over twenty-five years. Part I includes several chapters that examine the experiences and performances of women in various traditionally male-dominated professional roles: as scholars, attorneys, corrections officers, rabbis and ministers. Part...
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Simon explores the diverse and changing roles of women over twenty-five years. Part I includes several chapters that examine the experiences and performances of women in various traditionally male-dominated professional roles: as scholars, attorneys, corrections officers, rabbis and ministers. Part II deals with immigrants and their roles as new American women. In Part III, Simon discusses the types of crimes women commit, how they are treated in the criminal justice system, women as political terrorists, and how the public regards famous women offenders. In conclusion, Simon looks at how women's changing social roles affect their personal lives and political views.
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Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 » Read Now
by Catherine A. Brekus. 468 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This volume tells the story of several generations of women - both white and African American - who struggled to forge an enduring tradition of female religious leadership in colonial and antebellum America.
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The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages, in Theological Studies » Read Now
by Gary Macy. 27 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Christians ever considered women as ordained clergy appears to be yes...the ordination of women, he argues strongly...could belong to the clergy. Although deaconesses...the...
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Triumph over Silence: Women in Protestant History » Read Now
by Richard L. Greaves. 302 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...contributions of women and in part because...to the role of the clergy in the development...however, Calvinist women were active in a...backing for Calvinist clergy. The...
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With Passion and Compassion: Third World Women Doing Theology: Reflections from the Women's Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians » Read Now
by Virginia Fabella, Mercy Amba Oduyoye. 192 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...done in Bible studies, where women cease to be the docile and...of the wisdom/doctrine of the clergy. They are questioning the established...become uncomfortable for the...
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Patristic Testimony on Women's Ordination in 'Inter Insigniores,' in Theological Studies » Read Now
by John H. Wright. 11 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to Eve because she was the first to eat from the tree of wisdom. And as scriptural support for their ordination of women as clergy, they say that Moses sister was a...
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Women in Seminary: A Review of Current Social Science Research, in Review of Religious Research » Read Now
by Joy Charlton. 14 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...significant differences between women and men. Clergywomen are more likely than clergymen to have been born to upper-middle...September): 18-40. 1985 Women Clergy: Breaking...
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Career Women of America, 1776-1840 (Chap. III "Despite Saint Paul") » Read Now
by Elisabeth Anthony Dexter. 262 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...principal was often a clergyman, but in schools for girls women usually did the...to 40, quoted a clergyman as saying that...health of American women was notorious...Saint...