Fr. 49.90

Getting to Church - Exploring Narratives of Gender and Joining

English · Paperback / Softback

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Drawing on extensive field work, personal interviews and focus groups in mainline, evangelical, and eastern Orthodox churches, Sally Gallagher examines what it is that draws women and men differently into different types of congregations.

List of contents










  • Acknowledgments

  • Why Won't Religion Just Go Away?

  • Buildings

  • Becoming

  • Belonging

  • Growing

  • Giving

  • Changing

  • Gender and Congregational Culture

  • Appendix: Fieldwork in Three Congregations

  • Endnotes

  • References

  • Index



About the author










Sally K. Gallagher is Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. She is the author of Making Do in Damascus: Navigating a Generation of Change in Family and Work, and Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life, as well as other works in the areas of gender, religion, family and caregiving.


Summary

Drawing on extensive field work, personal interviews and focus groups in mainline, evangelical, and eastern Orthodox churches, Sally Gallagher examines what it is that draws women and men differently into different types of congregations.

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Sally Gallagher's thoughtful and well-researched analysis gives us new insight into how gender shapes the ways that people experience and enact religious commitment, and how they choose to join or to leave religious communities. This nuanced account takes into account a wide range of contemporary American religious communities and helps us to move beyond tired stereotypes about women'sand men'sreligiosity.

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