A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination, and the Church - Rilegato

Schmidt, Frederick W.

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ISBN 10: 0815626835 ISBN 13: 9780815626831

Casa editrice: Syracuse Univ Pr, 1996

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Drawing on interviews with 50 ordained and seminary-trained women, Schmidt reveals the bureaucratic and cultural impediments to women clergy in the Episcopal, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Southern Baptist, and Roman Catholic denominations. Through the women's stories the reader is guided through the maze of official church policy to the realities behind church hierarchies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Drawing from interviews of fifty ordained and seminary-trained women, Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. explores the bureaucratic and cultural underpinnings of the church that continues to bar women from positions of authority. Writing as a seminary-trained sociologist, Schmidt concentrates on the roles of clergywomen in five denominations - Episcopal, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Southern Baptist, and Roman Catholic. He maintains that behind the facade of equanimity, women are often relegated to the outskirts of church hierarchy. In compelling stories, we learn about the Episcopal woman denied a job because she was too short; the Methodist women burdened by the old saw of women preachers being like dogs walking on their hind legs; the Evangelical Lutheran who, in protest to her denomination's trickle-down reform, camped outside her bishop's office; and Roman Catholic women who, frustrated and beleaguered by their church's refusal to ordain them, become active reformers. To substantiate his assertion that churches are cultures as well as organizations, Schmidt examines both official policies regarding women's ordination in each denomination and the cultural context in which those policies must play out. Through their stories, the clergywomen remind us that the church influences society whether society acknowledges it or not.

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• Editore: Syracuse Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0815626835
• ISBN 13: 9780815626831
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 194