RT Book
T1 Leaving the Adventist ministry: a study of the process of exiting
T2 Religion in the age of transformation
A1 Ballis, Peter H.
LA English
PP Westport, Conn. London
PB Praeger
YR 1999
ED 1. publ.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1608931854
AB More than 180 pastors exited the Seventh-Day Adventist ministry in Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1988. This volume examines the processes whereby conservative and committed pastors began to question their occupational calling and turn their backs on the ministry. - 1. Radical Departures -- 2. Adventism and Exiting -- 3. Adventist Pastors and Expastors -- 4. Narratives of Exiting -- 5. Loss of Idealism and Cynical Knowledge -- 6. Propagating Cynicism -- 7. Bureaucrats, Scholars, and Friends -- 8. Charismatic Leadership Versus Bureaucratic Authority -- 9. Wives as Facilitators of Exit -- 10. Negotiating Exit -- 11. Adventist Crossroads.
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index
SN 0275962296
K1 Ex-clergy
K1 Seventh-day Adventists : Clergy