ASSESSING CONTEXT AND IDEOLOGY ON THE BEHAVIOR OF DENOMINATIONAL BUREAUCRATS

Though the behavior of American congregational clergy has long received scholarly attention, a similar assessment of those in the denominational bureaucracy has languished. I begin to remedy this by testing the usefulness of two dominant theoretical lenses that have proven successful in understandin...

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Main Author: CALFANO, BRIAN ROBERT (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications 2009
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 166-180
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