Gender and Ministry Style: Things Not What They Seem
This article reports an attempt to validate assertions of religious feminists that men approach the work of the pastoral ministry using a “masculine” ministry style, while women perform the same work using a “feminine” approach. The study utilized telephone survey data from 517 women and men compris...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
1993
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1993, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-11 |
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| Summary: | This article reports an attempt to validate assertions of religious feminists that men approach the work of the pastoral ministry using a “masculine” ministry style, while women perform the same work using a “feminine” approach. The study utilized telephone survey data from 517 women and men comprising a national sample of pastors in four “mainline” Protestant denominations in the United States. The analysis indicated that the emergence of male-female differences in ministry style depended on which of nine dimensions of approach to ministry was under consideration. Support for the argument of male-female “difference” in ministry style was also contingent on the effects of other variables — race and ethnicity, seminary cohort, and type of placement. Discussion of those outcomes focuses on the fact that the argument for sex differences in ministry style is largely a legitimation of women's claim for acceptance in the ordained pastoral ministry. That observation, then, has implications for how one approaches the argument conceptually and analytically. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711838 |