{"id":113,"date":"2024-10-31T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/womensreligiousleadership\/?p=113"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:16:23","slug":"nancy-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/womensreligiousleadership\/nancy-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nancy Ross & Dr. David J Howlett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Academic Affiliation: Utah Tech University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: \u201cYou might change your mind!\u201d: Early Responses to Women\u2019s Ordination in the 1980s RLDS Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scholars have documented reasons given by Christians and Jews for supporting women\u2019s ordination, noting that very little changed in terms of formal rationales between the 19th and 21st century (Chaves, 1997; Naddell, 1999; Speight, 2020). Less is known about how people came to change their minds on women\u2019s ordination; that is, how people who opposed women\u2019s ordination came to support it. Our study draws upon 63 first-person accounts of women and men in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) who, only months after a change in denominational policy on women\u2019s ordination, reflected on how they came to support women\u2019s ordination. To explain their change of mind, we use sociological frameworks drawn from Sullins (2000), Campbell and Putnam (2010), Hairline (2011), Cragun, et. al. (2016). We argue that women and men changed their minds when they prioritized strong, close relationships with people who already supported women\u2019s ordination (or girls and women they assumed would be positively impacted by it) over the pressures of cultural social signaling in which women\u2019s ordination served as a proxy for larger social issues (Chaves, 1997). In other words, changing one\u2019s mind about women\u2019s ordination performed more than just symbolic work; it reinforced pre-existing relational work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Academic Affiliation: Utah Tech University Title: \u201cYou might change your mind!\u201d: Early Responses to Women\u2019s Ordination in the 1980s RLDS Church Abstract: Scholars have documented reasons given by Christians and Jews for supporting women\u2019s ordination, noting that very little changed in terms of formal rationales between the 19th and 21st century (Chaves, 1997; Naddell, 1999;<\/p>\n

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