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Getting to Church - Narratives of Gender and Joining (Hardcover)
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Getting to Church - Narratives of Gender and Joining (Hardcover)
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Why do people go to church? What about a congregation attracts new
members? What is it that draws women and men differently into
diverse types of congregations? Getting to Church assesses the
deeply personal and gendered narratives around how women and men
move toward identifying with three very different Christian
congregations one Orthodox, one conservative, and one mainline.
Drawing on extensive research and ranging across layers of
congregational history, leadership, architecture, new member
process, programs, and service ministries, Sally Gallagher explores
trajectories of joining, as well as membership loss and change over
a seven-year period. By following both those who join a community
and those who explore but choose not to, Gallagher avoids the
methodological limitations of other studies and assesses the degree
to which the spaces, people, programs, and doctrines within
distinctive traditions draw women and men toward affiliation and
involvement. Getting to Church demonstrates that women are
attracted to specific doctrines and ideas, opportunities for
individual reflection, experience and expanded personal agency;
while men find in these congregations a sense of community within
which they experience greater connection with other men, appreciate
beauty, and yield to something greater than themselves. Drawing on
extensive field work, personal interviews, and focus groups,
Getting to Church challenges extant theories of gender and
religious involvement.
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