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Barriers Inhibiting Women's Path to the Pulpit and the Gender Gap in Compensation

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the gender gap in Protestant churches’ leadership and its connection to head clergy compensation, using the National Study of Congregations’ Economic Practices (NSCEP) data. The analysis reveals that women's leadership as head clergy is most common within smaller and theologically liberal churches and during a time of ...
Young‐joo Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embodied Practices of the Jewish Sabbath Among the Ultra‐Orthodox in Israel: Freedom Despite Limitations

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I focus on three embodied aspects of the ultra‐Orthodox (Haredi) Jewish Shabbat: clothing, meals, and appropriate conversation topics. Jewish law, alongside traditions and customs developed over the years, mandates changes during the Sabbath, including prohibitions and restrictions.
Stav Shufan‐Biton
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
wiley   +1 more source

“I Thank God We're Rich”: Justifying Economic Inequality in an Evangelical Congregation

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Christianity has been the inspiration for a variety of responses to economic inequality in the United States and beyond. However, evangelicalism has been associated in the literature with consistent justification of unequal economic circumstances.
Dawson P. R. Vosburg
wiley   +1 more source

House Negro or Field Negro?: Racial Salience and Claims‐Making in the United Methodist Church

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Relational inequalities theory relies on categorical differences in status to explain why the claims of people of color may be discouraged or denied. However, this mechanism may be insufficient to explain intraracial inequalities in claims‐making.
Oneya Fennell Okuwobi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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