Ordaining Women

Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations

Mark Chaves

  • Winner of the 1999 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Symbolic Significance of Women's Ordination

External Pressures

The Changing Meaning of Women's Ordination

Inerrancy, Sacramentalism, and Women's Ordination

Internal Organizational Factors

The Changing Nature of Conflicts over Women's Ordination

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

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Mark Chaves is Professor of Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity at Duke University.