Publications [#255563] of Mark Chaves

Publications

1. Chaves, M, The Symbolic Significance of Women's Ordination, The Journal of Religion, vol. 77 no. 1 (1997), pp. 87-114, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0022-4189 [eLvHCXMwVZ0xC8IwEIWDILi4FDSrfyAlyTVJby4WB0EQBR1zSTMWxP5_TEoFHW87uMd3y717jB1UopA0EJI1pMCRMQksmkYhRdT_hrAfmvcVWw3jjt374607iSUMQISSiC0APWkA661svS_AbVqZGkL0WaXlqUzKm1k6tEnb6GAInixi1K4NUQGpPdv6cjQ-TrO5LHK2TnnCAy_U5bkDzjYP7M7Py3Upq29Zv2cHVP2aeIb8LBChavkB9Qo4ZA], [doi]
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   Abstract:
   American women continue to enter the clergy in growing numbers. Chaves argues that a religious denomination's policy on the ordination of women is better understood as a symbolic display of gender equality--or inequality--that as a policy either motivated by or intended to regulate the day-to-day reality of women inside the organization.