Reproducing Inequality in a Formally Antiracist Organization: The Case of Racialized Career Pathways in the United Methodist Church

Eagle, David E.; Mueller, Collin

doi:10.1086/719391

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“…Therefore, focusing on the UMC offers the opportunity to have a substantial sample size of women clerics, while holding analyses stable within one theological tradition and organizational structure. However, focusing on a sample of UMC clergy does limit analyses, as the organization is very racially homogeneous and has been studied as a case of a racialized organization (Eagle and Mueller 2022). For this analysis, non-white pastors made up between 8 and 13 percent of the sample per study wave, which made it almost impossible to conduct meaningful analyses between racial groups other than white and non-white.…”

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The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders

Holleman

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

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Religious leaders face unique vocational challenges that place their mental health at risk. As the clergy as a profession has traditionally been male-dominated, clergywoman experience greater occupational stress than their clergymen colleagues, putting their mental health at additional risk. However, past research offers varied evidence on the gendered nature of clergy health, suggesting that clergywomen may be especially resilient to some difficulties of clergy work. Using panel data from the Clergy Health Initiative, a sample of United Methodist pastors from 2010 to 2021, this study examines clergy-specific occupational stress and its gendered relationship with depression. I find that, while clergywomen experience higher levels of occupational stress, the relationship between occupational stress and depression is weaker for clergywomen as compared to clergymen. This study thus offers a new perspective on the gendered nature of the pastorate: that clergywomen may be able to more effectively cope with vocational difficulties than clergymen.

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The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders

Holleman

2022

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…Mehta, Schneider, and Ecklund (2022) find that White congregants of various Christian denominations use religious language to justify colorblind racism. Eagle and Mueller (2022) document the ways that racial inequality is perpetuated even in formally antiracist churches. Bracey II and Moore (2017) contains firsthand accounts from Bracey II, who attended seven predominantly White Evangelical congregations.…”

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Making Space Behind the Veil: Black Agency within a Predominantly White Religion

Wood

Soelberg

Rugh

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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The work of W.E.B. Du Bois highlights the significance of Christian religion in Black American life. According to Du Bois, the Black Church serves as a site of self‐formation and affirmation, and the White Church as a source of racist beliefs and justifications for inequality. In this paper, we expand Du Bois’ inquiry about the influence of religion with a study of Black Americans who belong to a predominantly White religion. For those whose religious experience is almost wholly within the “white world,” what role does religion play in their lives? We analyze a set of 52 public accounts by Black Americans discussing their experiences as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (LDS). We find that for many Black LDS, membership in the LDS Church is characterized by contrast and contradiction, yielding spiritual conviction, joy, and meaningful communion on one hand, and racism and isolation on the other. We also find that Black LDS respond to these contradictions in a variety of ways. We classify these agentic responses into five types and examine the sociological significance of the observed variation. We conclude with a discussion of implications for scholarship on race and religion.

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Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches

Rider

Wade

Swaminathan

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American Journal of Sociology

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Reproducing Inequality in a Formally Antiracist Organization: The Case of Racialized Career Pathways in the United Methodist Church

Cited by 8 publications

References 84 publications

The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders

The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders

Making Space Behind the Veil: Black Agency within a Predominantly White Religion

Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches

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