Historicizing the Secularization Debate: An Agenda for Research

TL;DR: The authors compared marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources, and found that race is still the most powerful division in the marriage market.

TL;DR: A penetrating history of American family mounts a withering criticism of the culture of nostalgia that clouds current debate and offers a plan for reconstituting the American family dream as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, Smith explains how and why the liberation theology movement emerged and succeeded when and where it did, and why it is a school of Roman Catholic thought which teaches that a primary duty of the church must be to promote social and economic justice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the institutions and leadership of American Islam, Muslim law, and its applications in the American context, examining the kinds of problems that beset Muslims trying to observe the elements of their faith in a potentially difficult environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present examples of some of the most recent research on the status of women clergy and the institutions in which they work, focusing on individual, institutional and demographic factors affecting female clergy.

TL;DR: The book explores the devotion of American women to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes, highlighting the saint's rise in popularity and its impact on women's lives during the 20th century.

TL;DR: The short form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was completed by 373 male and 560 female Anglican stipendiary parochial clergy as mentioned in this paper, and the results showed that female clergy were not significantly different from the male clergy in terms of their scores recorded on the extraversion scale, the neuroticism scale, psychoticism scale, or the lie scale.

TL;DR: Feminization of the Clergy in America explores the impact of women's entry into the clergy on opportunities for men and women, finding that the decline in men's opportunities predates the influx of women and that increases in the number of women ordained enhance opportunities for men.