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Revisiting Gender and Religion

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In this presidential address delivered at the 2014 annual meeting of the Religious Research Association, the topic of religion and gender is revisited by focusing on parallel histories of American Protestant ordained clergywomen and social science scholarship on religion, noting that in both cases we have witnessed extraordinary change, but not transformation.

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Acknowledgments

I am especially grateful to those clergywomen who shared their experiences and thoughts with me over time, and to those scholars whose early and on-going attention to the relationship of gender and religion created foundations for me and all of us.

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Charlton, J.C. Revisiting Gender and Religion. Rev Relig Res 57, 331–339 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13644-015-0225-2

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