Evangelical Women in Belfast - Imprisoned Or Empowered?

Informationen zum Autor SANDRA BAILLIE is Research Affiliate at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The Queen's University of Belfast. In 1999 she was an individual recipient of a Rowntree Charitable Trust grant which is funding her current study on Presbyterianism and Identity in Ireland (north and south). Klappentext This book is about evangelical women, power and religion. It is a sociological study using quantitative data, including interviews. It looks at women's attitudes to ministry, work and childcare, marriage, money, and issues such as sex, abortion, divorce, and cohabitation. Chapters on theory and literature examine feminism from a Christian perspective and cover sociological debates on questions of bias and the relationship between sociology and theology. Zusammenfassung This book is about evangelical women, power and religion. It is a sociological study using quantitative data, including interviews. It looks at women's attitudes to ministry, work and childcare, marriage, money, and issues such as sex, abortion, divorce, and cohabitation. Chapters on theory and literature examine feminism from a Christian perspective and cover sociological debates on questions of bias and the relationship between sociology and theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abstract Introduction Women and Evangelicals in Northern Ireland Towards an Evangelical Christian Feminism A Christian Feminist Methodology Towards a Christian Sociology Women's Role and Ministry in Contemporary Belfast Churches Women, Work and Family Marriage, Feminism, Money and Contraception Moral and Social Issues Conclusion Bibliography Appendices Index

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Abstract Introduction Women and Evangelicals in Northern Ireland Towards an Evangelical Christian Feminism A Christian Feminist Methodology Towards a Christian Sociology Women's Role and Ministry in Contemporary Belfast Churches Women, Work and Family Marriage, Feminism, Money and Contraception Moral and Social Issues Conclusion Bibliography Appendices Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: S. Baillie, Sandra Baillie, Sandra M. Baillie
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 19.12.2001
• EAN: 9780333947616
• ISBN: 978-0-333-94761-6
• Pages: 276
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Etudes de genre; Religion, B, Gender Studies, Equality, Philosophy, Bibles, Religion: general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social groups and identities, Social Structure, Philosophy, general, Religious Studies, general, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Biblical Studies, Bible—Study and teaching, marriage;religion;theology;women