Ordaining women : culture and conflict in religious organizations / Mark Chaves.
Ordaining women : culture and conflict in religious organizations / Mark Chaves.
Ordaining women : culture and conflict in religious organizations / Mark Chaves.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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T0379378
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English
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x, 237 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The Symbolic Significance of Women's Ordination -- 3. External Pressures -- 4. The Changing Meaning of Women's Ordination -- 5. Inerrancy, Sacramentalism, and Women's Ordination -- 6. Internal Organizational Factors -- 7. The Changing Nature of Conflicts over Women's Ordination...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1997.
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Why does a denomination prohibiting women clergy support parishes run by women? Why does another denomination opt to ordain women when there are few women seeking to join that clergy? And why have some denominations ordained women so much earlier than others? In a revealing examination of the complex relationships between religion, social forces, a...
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Ordaining women : culture and conflict in religious organizations / Mark Chaves.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index.
Transferred from N262.14082/1.
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T0379378
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74VMbwMZOv3g
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0674641450 (alk. paper)
9780674641457 (alk. paper)
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262.140820973
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991000655329702626
