Gender and Religion

by Jr. Swatos (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000677010
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	210
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

William H. Swatos, Jr lectures widely in sociology and is editor of Sociology of Religion.

Table of Contents

Part One: Women in Religion, 1. Gender and Ministry Style: Things Not What They Seem, The Social Construction o f a New Leadership Role: Catholic Women Pastors, Dual Odination Tracks: Differential Benefits and Costs for Men and Women Clergy, Rabbis and Ministers: Women of the Book and the Cloth, Men Helping Women: A M nastic Case Stud, The Limited Empowerment of Women in Black Spiritual Churches: An Alternative Vehicle to Religious Leadership Part Two: Women’s Experiences with Religion 7. Gender and the Experience of Conversion: The Case of " Returnees" to Modern Orthodox Judaism 8. Religious Rituals and Secular Rituals: Interpenetrating, Models of Childbirth in a Modern, Israeli Context, The Effects of Ritual Healing on Female Victim s of Abuse: A Study of Empowerment and Transformation 10. Women and the Charismatic Com m unity: Defining the Attraction

Editorial Reviews

"This volume not only probes issues related to women's presence in religious organizations, but places such issues in a pluralistic range of religious expressions and creations—bridging not only two generations of scholarship, but two generations of scholars. It takes scholarship on gender and religion to a new level." —Paula D. Nesbitt, Illiff School of Theology

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