Factors Leading to Clergy Job Search in Two Protestant Denominations

People often assume that clergy make job-related decisions based primarily on spiritual criteria, such as a "calling." In this paper, we challenge this sort of belief by examining clergy job search behavior from a sociology of work perspective. Using data from a 1996 national survey of par...

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Authors: Wildhagen, Tina (Author) ; Mueller, Charles W. (Author) ; Wang, Minglu (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications 2005
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2005, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 380-402
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