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Article: Women and Clergywomen.
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- December 22, 2000
- Author:
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Joy Charlton [*]
I am at once an old-timer and a newcomer to the sociology of religion. My connection to it began in my college days, lasted part of the way through graduate school, and then after excursions to other sub-fields, I returned, some fifteen years later, to an early topic of research, a study of clergywomen. During this time the field changed most obviously in the visibility of women as the focus of research, and in the increasing numbers of women as the researchers themselves. Less obviously, but just as importantly, research by and about women and religion has illuminated our own lives, and the lives of women outside a religious context. In my own ...