Toward 2000: Some Futures for Religious Leadership
The paper focuses on changes affecting religious leadership as we move toward and beyond the year 2000. Using Robert Wuthnow's "restructuring," I argue that significant change have been occurring in the symbolic markers and boundaries that define the religious leader's status and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
1992
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Review of religious research
Year: 1992, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 289-304 |
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| Summary: | The paper focuses on changes affecting religious leadership as we move toward and beyond the year 2000. Using Robert Wuthnow's "restructuring," I argue that significant change have been occurring in the symbolic markers and boundaries that define the religious leader's status and role, especially in relation to the legitimation, distribution and exercise of authority. Following a discussion of restructuring and authority, I examine three areas in which significant restructuring has been occurring: a redefinition of the "sacredly masculine" image of the ordained leader as significant numbers of women enter the ordained status; a breaking down of the markers that have separated clergy from laity through emphasis on the ministry of "the whole people of God;" and a redefinition of the clergy's authority as interpreters of religious truth under the impact of "high" or "late" modernity. In the conclusion, I speculate on the likely directions that these trends will take in the coming years. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511602 |