Gender, profession, and non‐conformal religiosity

Warburg, Margit; Lüchau, Peter; Andersen, Peter B.

doi:10.1080/13537909908580867

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“…In the 1982 study 62% of all Baha'i women who had ever worked were employed in such professions, and the female Baha'i seekers were found predominantly among these women. 13 My colleagues and I have published a study showing that this clustering of gender and profession, which can be personified by a female health care worker pursuing a religious quest, is not special to Baha'i but seems to be part of a more general pattern of the relation between gender, profession, and non-conformal religiosity (Warburg et al, 1999).…”

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Seeking the Seekers in the Sociology of Religion

Warburg¹

2001

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In the sociology of religion the terms “seekers” and “seekership” have been widely used in studies of recruitment and conversion, although with some inconsistency as regards definitions and conclusions. A distinction between “seekers” and “non-seekers” by independent criteria is rarely made. In this study of the Danish Baha'is the author applies a pragmatic characterization of seekership based upon a set of defined attitudes and behaviour of the Baha'is in their pre-Baha'i religious lives. A subsequent analysis of the conversion stories of 88 informants showed that of those who had responded to Baha'i advertisements or had been recruited through public meetings, nearly all could be defined as seekers. This indicates that the proportion of seekers among proselytes in religious movements partly depends on the mission strategy applied. Seekers also remarried more often than non-seekers, suggesting that the concept of seekership has the potential of being developed into a more general sociological category.

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