Gender and Religion

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. 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.

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

Inhalt
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