Pastors and public life [electronic resource] : the changing face of American Protestant clergy / Corwin E. Smidt.
Smidt, Corwin E., 1946- author.
2016
BV660.3 .S65 2016eb
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Title
Pastors and public life [electronic resource] : the changing face of American Protestant clergy / Corwin E. Smidt.
Author
Smidt, Corwin E., 1946- author.
ISBN
9780190455521 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190455491
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 244 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190455491 doi
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BV660.3 .S65 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
253.2
Summary
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Pastors and public life.
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Introduction: The changing world of Protestant clergy
Clergy as public actors
The social characteristics of clergy and the churches they serve
The theological orientations of American Protestant clergy
The social theologies of American Protestant clergy
The positions of clergy on contemporary issues of public life
The political norms and psychological resources of clergy
The political activities of clergy within congregational life
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.

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