Erin F Johnston
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147032 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erin F Johnston |
| PRENOMES | Erin F |
| SOBRENOME | Johnston |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSTON E F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3335-9496 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Who Becomes a Deacon? Gendered Vocational Discernment and the Feminization of the United Methodist Diaconate
Gender disparities in religious leadership remain persistent across denominations. While most research emphasizes barriers to women’s advancement into senior leadership roles (vertical segregation), less attention has been paid to gendered sorting across parallel ministry roles (horizontal segregation). Focusing on the vocational diaconate in the United Methodist Church (UMC), this study examines how gendered sorting across ordination tracks is p…
The weight of the yoke
Healthy clergy serve as the cornerstone of thriving congregations and, by extension, healthier communities. However, the multifaced working responsibilities combined with a deep sense of responsibility to one's sacred call can produce a cascade of sources of stress that are not always taken into consideration when assessing ways to support clergy. Using data from the Clergy Health Initiative Longitudinal Survey (CHILS) and in-depth interviews fro…
Walking the Tightrope
Peer Networks and Ideological Consistency
Why do students in higher education tend to become more liberal? The authors outline a model of belief change wherein cognitive motivations for ideological consistency interact with social factors in peer networks to influence how students in higher education engage with social change, often resulting in a shift toward more liberal views. Hypotheses derived from this framework are tested using longitudinal data on two cohorts of divinity school s…
“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”
Drawing from 102 in-depth interviews conducted with first-year Master of Divinity (M.Div.) students at a Mainline Protestant seminary, this paper examines how students describe and account for their positions on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy. We found that students on “both sides”—i.e., those who lean affirming and those who lean non-affirming—invoked three primary authorities in their accounts: Bi…
Making Moral Citizens
Introducing the Seminary to Early Ministry Study
The Seminary to Early Ministry (SEM) Study is a mixed-method, prospective study designed to provide high-quality empirical data on student formation in theological education. The study will use a series of surveys and in-depth interviews to track three cohorts of divinity school students from matriculation into the early years of their careers. As a result, the study hopes to compile the most comprehensive longitudinal dataset on theological educ…
Interpreting the Body
Pastoring in a Pandemic
COVID-19 and its associated restrictions around in-person gatherings fundamentally unsettled routine ways of doing ministry. In this article, we draw on 50 in-depth interviews conducted with United Methodist clergy in the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic (June 2020–January 2021) to examine the sources and t ypes of social support pastors relied on during this time. We found that most clergy reported drawing from a diverse eco-system of socia…
Lake Superior Manoomin cultural and ecosystem characterization study
Manoomin, wild rice, is integral to the culture, livelihood, and identity of the Anishinaabeg, the indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States that include the Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Algonquin peoples. In addition to the vital role Manoomin has in the lives of the Anishinaabeg, Manoomin is recognized as being ecologically important, feeding migrating and resident wildlife species, providing a nursery for fish and nesting and breedi…
Situating Spirituality
Expanding the Horizontal Call
This research examines the social actors and interactions that facilitate seminary students' sense of calling. Drawing from 36 in-depth interviews with first year Masters of Divinity students, we introduce six ideal typical social others who play a formative role in the early stages of a call to ministry: instigators, exemplars, interpreters, affirmers, challengers, and codiscerners. Together, these findings demonstrate that the call to ministry,…
Interpreting Religion
Seminary Students and Physical Health
The Financial Impacts of Covid-19 on United Methodist Churches in North Carolina
Background In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches in the United States were forced to stop meeting in person and move to remote forms of worship and congregational life. This shift likely impacted congregational finances, which are primarily driven by individual donations. Initial research has suggested that there is a great deal of heterogeneity in the financial impact on congregations, but there has been scant research examining how pas…
Pastoral Ministry in Unsettled Times
Background COVID-19 and its associated restrictions around in-person gatherings have created unprecedented challenges for religious congregations and those who lead them. While several surveys have attempted to describe how pastors and congregations responded to COVID-19, these provide a relatively thin picture of how COVID-19 is impacting religious life. There is scant qualitative data describing the lived reality of religious leaders and commun…
The Feeling of Enlightenment
This paper explores how two spiritual communities-a Catholic prayer house and an Integral Yoga studio-shape the emotional lives of their members. I find that both organizations promise to facilitate what I call holistic emotional change: modifications of deep-seated emotional habits and dispositions. Moreover, both organizations transmit a comprehensive emotion management system-a regimen of different practices, or techniques of emotion managemen…
Solitary Pagans
In Solitary Pagans, Helen Berger provides a general overview of contemporary Pagans in the USA (and less centrally, other English-speaking countries). The book, based on the 2009–2010 survey, “The Pagan Census Revisited” (conducted with James R. Lewis), is a follow-up to Berger et al.’s (2003) book (co-written with Evan A. Leach and Leigh S. Shaffer), Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States. …
Failing to Learn, or Learning to Fail? Accounting for Persistence in the Acquisition of Spiritual Disciplines
The Enlightened Self
Existing research on religious identity, especially from a narrative perspective, has tended to focus either on accounts of the past (especially occasions of religious change) or on conceptions of religious identity in the present. Religious communities, however, not only provide a sense of identity and belonging in the present-as a "Catholic" or "Buddhist," for example-they also promote a particular vision of the religious ideal: The way of bein…
“I Was Always This Way…”
This article is concerned with identifying, comparing, and accounting for the principal rhetorical conventions within Pagan practitioners’ narratives of conversion. Applying key insights from studies on narrative identity and drawing on 15 months of fieldwork and 25 in‐depth interviews with Pagan practitioners, I first outline formal similarities in the content of participants’ narratives, arguing that these narrative conventions together constit…
Pastoral Ministry in Unsettled Times
Background COVID-19 and its associated restrictions around in-person gatherings have created unprecedented challenges for religious congregations and those who lead them. While several surveys have attempted to describe how pastors and congregations responded to COVID-19, these provide a relatively thin picture of how COVID-19 is impacting religious life. There is scant qualitative data describing the lived reality of religious leaders and commun…
Failing to Learn, or Learning to Fail? Accounting for Persistence in the Acquisition of Spiritual Disciplines
The Financial Impacts of Covid-19 on United Methodist Churches in North Carolina
Background In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches in the United States were forced to stop meeting in person and move to remote forms of worship and congregational life. This shift likely impacted congregational finances, which are primarily driven by individual donations. Initial research has suggested that there is a great deal of heterogeneity in the financial impact on congregations, but there has been scant research examining how pas…
The Feeling of Enlightenment
This paper explores how two spiritual communities-a Catholic prayer house and an Integral Yoga studio-shape the emotional lives of their members. I find that both organizations promise to facilitate what I call holistic emotional change: modifications of deep-seated emotional habits and dispositions. Moreover, both organizations transmit a comprehensive emotion management system-a regimen of different practices, or techniques of emotion managemen…
Situating Spirituality
The Enlightened Self
Existing research on religious identity, especially from a narrative perspective, has tended to focus either on accounts of the past (especially occasions of religious change) or on conceptions of religious identity in the present. Religious communities, however, not only provide a sense of identity and belonging in the present-as a "Catholic" or "Buddhist," for example-they also promote a particular vision of the religious ideal: The way of bein…
Walking the Tightrope
Expanding the Horizontal Call
This research examines the social actors and interactions that facilitate seminary students' sense of calling. Drawing from 36 in-depth interviews with first year Masters of Divinity students, we introduce six ideal typical social others who play a formative role in the early stages of a call to ministry: instigators, exemplars, interpreters, affirmers, challengers, and codiscerners. Together, these findings demonstrate that the call to ministry,…
“I Was Always This Way…”
This article is concerned with identifying, comparing, and accounting for the principal rhetorical conventions within Pagan practitioners’ narratives of conversion. Applying key insights from studies on narrative identity and drawing on 15 months of fieldwork and 25 in‐depth interviews with Pagan practitioners, I first outline formal similarities in the content of participants’ narratives, arguing that these narrative conventions together constit…
The Enlightened Self
Existing research on religious identity, especially from a narrative perspective, has tended to focus either on accounts of the past (especially occasions of religious change) or on conceptions of religious identity in the present. Religious communities, however, not only provide a sense of identity and belonging in the present-as a "Catholic" or "Buddhist," for example-they also promote a particular vision of the religious ideal: The way of bein…
Failing to Learn, or Learning to Fail? Accounting for Persistence in the Acquisition of Spiritual Disciplines
Solitary Pagans
In Solitary Pagans, Helen Berger provides a general overview of contemporary Pagans in the USA (and less centrally, other English-speaking countries). The book, based on the 2009–2010 survey, “The Pagan Census Revisited” (conducted with James R. Lewis), is a follow-up to Berger et al.’s (2003) book (co-written with Evan A. Leach and Leigh S. Shaffer), Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States. …
The Feeling of Enlightenment
This paper explores how two spiritual communities-a Catholic prayer house and an Integral Yoga studio-shape the emotional lives of their members. I find that both organizations promise to facilitate what I call holistic emotional change: modifications of deep-seated emotional habits and dispositions. Moreover, both organizations transmit a comprehensive emotion management system-a regimen of different practices, or techniques of emotion managemen…
Interpreting Religion
Seminary Students and Physical Health
The Financial Impacts of Covid-19 on United Methodist Churches in North Carolina
Background In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, churches in the United States were forced to stop meeting in person and move to remote forms of worship and congregational life. This shift likely impacted congregational finances, which are primarily driven by individual donations. Initial research has suggested that there is a great deal of heterogeneity in the financial impact on congregations, but there has been scant research examining how pas…
Pastoral Ministry in Unsettled Times
Background COVID-19 and its associated restrictions around in-person gatherings have created unprecedented challenges for religious congregations and those who lead them. While several surveys have attempted to describe how pastors and congregations responded to COVID-19, these provide a relatively thin picture of how COVID-19 is impacting religious life. There is scant qualitative data describing the lived reality of religious leaders and commun…
Introducing the Seminary to Early Ministry Study
The Seminary to Early Ministry (SEM) Study is a mixed-method, prospective study designed to provide high-quality empirical data on student formation in theological education. The study will use a series of surveys and in-depth interviews to track three cohorts of divinity school students from matriculation into the early years of their careers. As a result, the study hopes to compile the most comprehensive longitudinal dataset on theological educ…
Interpreting the Body
Pastoring in a Pandemic
COVID-19 and its associated restrictions around in-person gatherings fundamentally unsettled routine ways of doing ministry. In this article, we draw on 50 in-depth interviews conducted with United Methodist clergy in the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic (June 2020–January 2021) to examine the sources and t ypes of social support pastors relied on during this time. We found that most clergy reported drawing from a diverse eco-system of socia…
Lake Superior Manoomin cultural and ecosystem characterization study
Manoomin, wild rice, is integral to the culture, livelihood, and identity of the Anishinaabeg, the indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States that include the Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Algonquin peoples. In addition to the vital role Manoomin has in the lives of the Anishinaabeg, Manoomin is recognized as being ecologically important, feeding migrating and resident wildlife species, providing a nursery for fish and nesting and breedi…
Situating Spirituality
Expanding the Horizontal Call
This research examines the social actors and interactions that facilitate seminary students' sense of calling. Drawing from 36 in-depth interviews with first year Masters of Divinity students, we introduce six ideal typical social others who play a formative role in the early stages of a call to ministry: instigators, exemplars, interpreters, affirmers, challengers, and codiscerners. Together, these findings demonstrate that the call to ministry,…
“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”
Drawing from 102 in-depth interviews conducted with first-year Master of Divinity (M.Div.) students at a Mainline Protestant seminary, this paper examines how students describe and account for their positions on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy. We found that students on “both sides”—i.e., those who lean affirming and those who lean non-affirming—invoked three primary authorities in their accounts: Bi…
Making Moral Citizens
The weight of the yoke
Healthy clergy serve as the cornerstone of thriving congregations and, by extension, healthier communities. However, the multifaced working responsibilities combined with a deep sense of responsibility to one's sacred call can produce a cascade of sources of stress that are not always taken into consideration when assessing ways to support clergy. Using data from the Clergy Health Initiative Longitudinal Survey (CHILS) and in-depth interviews fro…
Walking the Tightrope
Peer Networks and Ideological Consistency
Why do students in higher education tend to become more liberal? The authors outline a model of belief change wherein cognitive motivations for ideological consistency interact with social factors in peer networks to influence how students in higher education engage with social change, often resulting in a shift toward more liberal views. Hypotheses derived from this framework are tested using longitudinal data on two cohorts of divinity school s…
Who Becomes a Deacon? Gendered Vocational Discernment and the Feminization of the United Methodist Diaconate
Gender disparities in religious leadership remain persistent across denominations. While most research emphasizes barriers to women’s advancement into senior leadership roles (vertical segregation), less attention has been paid to gendered sorting across parallel ministry roles (horizontal segregation). Focusing on the vocational diaconate in the United Methodist Church (UMC), this study examines how gendered sorting across ordination tracks is p…
Sociology (16 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 obras)