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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822763103321

Autore

Nesbitt Paula D. <1948->

Titolo

Feminization of the clergy in America : occupational and organizational perspectives / / Paula D. Nesbitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-19-773915-6

1-280-45288-9

0-19-535545-8

1-4237-5933-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

262.14082

262.140973

262/.14/082

Soggetti

Women clergy

Ordination of women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; ONE: Tradition or Transformation: Women's Struggle over Religious Authority and Leadership; TWO: Clergy in Two Religious Organizations; THREE: Ordination and Entry Jobs: Critical Criteria; FOUR: The Second Job: Key to the Career Path; FIVE: Clergy Careers over Time: A 60-Year Portrait; SIX: Decline and Fall of the Young Male Cleric; SEVEN: Feminization and Backlash; EIGHT: Structural Change in the Ministry; NINE: Clergy Feminization: Controlled Labor or Liberationist Change?; Appendix A: Clergy Job Titles Aggregated by Job Level; Appendix B: Demographic Variables; Appendix C: Mean (average) Career Trajectory; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Recent years have seen the entry of large numbers of women into the ordained clergy of Protestant churches. Nesbitt analyses the extent to which this has affected the occupation.