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

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

Jr, Frederick, Jr.
Schiess, Betty Bone

Hardcover

Series: Women and Gender in Religion

Religion General General Christianity

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0815626835
ISBN13: 9780815626831
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Feb 1 1996
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

Writing as a seminary-trained sociologist, Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. concentrates on the roles of clergywomen
in five denominations--Episcopal, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran, Southern Baptist, and Roman Catholic. He maintains that behind the façade 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

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