Episcopal Women: Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline DenominationCatherine M. Prelinger Oxford University Press, 1992 - 363 pages The opening of the ordained ministry to women, in the larger context of the women's movement in America, has created an unprecedented situation within Protestant denominations. Women are now increasingly visible in religious organizations previously administered solely by men. Congregations, church agencies, educational institutions, and volunteer organizations are all affected by the "gender shift" within mainstream Protestantism. Episcopal Women is the first careful historical and sociological study of the impact of these gender changes on a particular religious institution. This groundbreaking volume includes essays on Episcopal theology and women's spirituality, the urban church, aging and the church, women's organizations, women donors, clerical leadership, and black women's experience in the Episcopal Church. |
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... institutions be- cause these institutions often provided the only real opportunities ac- cessible to them . " To say that most women have accepted without question their exclusion from leadership roles in public institutions , their ...
... institutions be- cause these institutions often provided the only real opportunities ac- cessible to them . " To say that most women have accepted without question their exclusion from leadership roles in public institutions , their ...
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... institutions as inev- itably entailing the appropriation of women's time and energy for the reproduction of those institutions , a two - stage strategy of institutional change is needed . In the first stage , women must achieve ...
... institutions as inev- itably entailing the appropriation of women's time and energy for the reproduction of those institutions , a two - stage strategy of institutional change is needed . In the first stage , women must achieve ...
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... institutions must find that warning important to heed . Second , the mainline Christian churches , in the context of ... institutions . The conscious construction of alternative institutions will require another collective voice , a ...
... institutions must find that warning important to heed . Second , the mainline Christian churches , in the context of ... institutions . The conscious construction of alternative institutions will require another collective voice , a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Historical Perspectives | 17 |
Galveston | 72 |
Copyright | |
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