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The ideas in this paper were worked out this year in discussion with women of the Boston Theological Institute and especially with the Resource/ Research appointees and Committee on Women's Progress at Harvard Divinity School. The unpublished papers in the reference list are the result of some of their research. Discussion with the following women was especially helpful: Eleanor McLaughlin, Dorothy Austin, Polly Allen-Robinson, Judith Goldenberg, Muriel Chase, Brinton Lykes, Lynn Rhodes, Mary Hunt, Angelina Bassano, Jane Redmont, Bobette Reed, Carol Lambert, all of Harvard Divinity School; Ann Kelly and Carol Bohn of the Harvard Catholic Center, Mary Daniel Turner and Mary Luke Tobin of LCWR, Emily Hewett and Barbara Gerlach, BTI; and several groups of women of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Boston, Connecticut and Maryland, Sisters of Mercy, Pittsburgh; Immaculate Heart Sisters of Monroe, Michigan, Dominican Sisters of Sinsinewa, Wisconsin, Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
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Women in Religion: A Sociological Perspective†
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1975.tb00347.x
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Augusta Neal, S. M. (1975), Women in Religion: A Sociological Perspective. Sociological Inquiry, 45: 33–39. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1975.tb00347.x
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- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2007
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2007
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Religious ministry, theology, and even the study of religion in history and sociology have been done for so long from a male point of view that the burgeoning activity and reflection of women scholars and activists are not yet researched or deliberated when male scholars define the parameters for interpretation and name the problems as they perceive them. Current scholarship is sadly lacking in its address of modern problems in religious perspective, especially as attempts are made to understand the new pressures on population and institutions.