Synopses & Reviews
This insightful volume provides an in-depth study of the backgrounds, professional role formation, worldviews, and ministerial leadership styles of 17 clergywomen. Clergywomen and Their WorldviewS≪/i> offers both group insights and metaphors helpful in understanding the actualities and ideals of institutional change. Employing sociological theory, such topics as gender orientations, establishing authority, stratification, and cultural belief systems are also discussed. As women increasingly emerge as a force in religious institutions, students of women's studies, religion, anthropology, and sociology will welcome this timely investigation of clergywomen.
About the Author
MARTH LONG ICE is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Concordia College, Moorehead, Minnesota.
Table of Contents
Preface
The Project
The Women
Gender Orientation
A. Sociological Digression
Authority and "Struggle"
Doing Administration
Doing Ethics: Moral Leadership as Responsible Caring
Doing Theology
Worldview Paradigm Shift
Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
Index
About the Author