Corwin E Smidt

Pastors and Public Life

The Changing Face of American Protestant Clergy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pastors and Public Life examines the changing sociological, theological, and political characteristics of American Protestant clergy. The book that gathers data based on a study of random national surveys of clergy across four mainline Protestant and three evangelical Protestant denominations over the course of twenty-plus years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780190455507
• ISBN-10: 0190455500
• Artikelnr.: 47867983

Autorenporträt

Corwin E. Smidt is Senior Fellow at The Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, Calvin College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction The Changing World of Protestant Clergy
* Chapter 1 Clergy as Public Actors
* Chapter 2 The Social Characteristics of Clergy and the Churches They
Serve
* Chapter 3 The Theological Orientations of American Protestant Clergy
* Chapter 4 The Social Theologies of American Protestant Clergy
* Chapter 5 The Positions of Clergy on Contemporary Issues of Public
Life
* Chapter 6 The Political Norms and Psychological Resources of Clergy
* Chapter 7 The Political Activities of Clergy within Congregational
Life
* Chapter 8 The Political Activism of Clergy
* Conclusion Reflections on the Past, Thinking about the Future
* Appendix A Number of Respondents and Response Rate by Denomination
over Time
* Appendix B Validating the Representativeness of the 2009 Cooperative
Clergy Survey
* Index