Title: Ordaining Women
Description: Why does a denomination prohibiting women clergy support parishes run by women? Why does another denomination opt to ordain women when there are few women seeking to join that clergy? And why have some denominations ordained women so much earlier than others?

In a revealing examination of the complex relationships between religion, social forces, and organizational structure, Ordaining Women draws examples and data from over 100 Christian denominations to explore the meaning of institutional rules about women's ordination.
Subjects: Women clergy, Ordination of women, Religion and sociology, Women in Christianity, Church history, Geestelijkheid, Femmes dans le christianisme, Clergé féminin, Ordination des femmes, Sociologie religieuse, Kerkelijke ambten, Vrouwen, Histoire religieuse, United states, church history, 20th century, Women, religious life, Monastic and religious life of women
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century