Women, Religion, and Leadership Female Saints as Unexpected Leaders

• Other Authors: Denison, Barbara J (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2018
• Series: Routledge studies in leadership research 7
• Subjects: Christian leadership > Catholic Church; Christian women saints > Religious life
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• Physical Description: x, 205 pages 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781138204843

Women, Religion and Leadership focuses on women from the traditional context of women as leaders with chapters observing various aspects of leadership from specifically chosen religious female leaders and going on to examine the legacies they leave behind. 　 This book seeks to identify and analyse the gendered issues underlying the structural lack of recognition for women within the church and to examine the culturally constructed narratives related to these women for evidence of their leadership despite the exclusionary rules applied to force their submission to the dominating forces. Finally this book intends to draw out of these women's stories the various lessons of leadership that invoke current relevancies among prevailing leadership paradigms. Written by experts from disciplines as varied as leadership and communication studies to sociology, and history to medievalist and English scholars; Women, Religion and Leadership will prove key reading for scholars, academics and researchers is these and related disciplines.