Dual Ordination Tracks: Differential Benefits and Costs for Men and Women Clergy
Although some religious organizations have had a sequential, two-ordination process for clergy, the implementation of two or more discrete ordination tracks is a recent development. In research on careers of 1,158 male and female clergy in two denominations that have instituted discrete ordination t...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Sociology of religion 1993-04, Vol.54 (1), p.13-30 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Although some religious organizations have had a sequential, two-ordination process for clergy, the implementation of two or more discrete ordination tracks is a recent development. In research on careers of 1,158 male and female clergy in two denominations that have instituted discrete ordination tracks — the Episcopal Church and the Unitarian Universalist Association — a similar relationship appeared between these newer ordination tracks and growing pressure toward clergy occupational feminization. The more recent tracks were sex-segregated, and there was evidence of occupational conflation between female clergy in both tracks that did not occur with the male clergy. The evidence suggests that dual ordination tracks may serve a dual utility, not only as an occupational response to socioeconomic changes within religious organizations but also to occupational feminization, in a manner that disproportionately concentrates male clergy in high-level positions. |
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ISSN: | 1069-4404 1759-8818 |
DOI: | 10.2307/3711839 |