African American Religious Groups
Bible Circle
black spiritual churches
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Catholic women pastors
Census
charismatic community
childbirth
Childbirth Rituals
clergy-laity dynamics
Confer
conversion studies
Dual Ordination
dual ordination tracks
empirical religious studies
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Female Clergy
Female Rabbis
female victims
Feminist Witchcraft
gender barriers
gender impact on religious leadership
Israeli women
Lincoln Square
liturgical transformation
Ministry Style
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Nineteenth Century Spiritualism
Peoples Temple
Permanent Deacons
Permanent Diaconate
psychological abuse
rabbis
religious gender roles
religious leadership
religious rituals
religious transformation
ritual empowerment
ritual healing
Secular Rituals
social change in faith communities
social construction
Spiritual Churches
Spiritual Congregations
Umbanda Center
United Methodist Church
Women Clergy
Women Pastors
women's empowerment
Women's Spirituality Group
Women’s Spirituality Group
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781560006992
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Few areas in American life have experienced as profound a change in structure and mission as religion in this epoch of women's struggle for complete equality and integration. Until recently, few studies have attempted the sort of empirical and theoretical integration that reveals the magnitude of this shift in basic roles, attitudes and participation in church life. The author has assembled a well-designed and carefully defined volume to give the reader a solid, empirical look at this revolution in religious practice and belief. It also provides an insight into the sharp differences in opinions among women involved in religion: the degree to which women change the structure if liturgy or simply partake of traditions from which they were formally excluded; the extend to which women increase church involvement in social issues or retain a classical orientation to preaching; the extent to which gender has an impact on everything from interpersonal relations of clergy with laity to preaching orientations
William H. Swatos, Jr lectures widely in sociology and is editor of Sociology of Religion.
