Sally K Gallagher

Biographic Data

ID3676543
NAMESally K Gallagher
GIVEN NAMESSally K
FAMILY NAMEGallagher
SIGNATUREGALLAGHER S K
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS337
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX10

  • Getting to Church

    Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Getting to Church explores the ways in which congregations continue to provide an arena in which adults deepen and expand a sense of identity, connection, and growth. Data for this analysis come from three years of participant observation, focus groups, and personal interviews with clergy, current members, and prospective members in three congregations representing diverse traditions within US Christianity. Our analysis demonstrates that historic…

  • Growing

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Chapter 5 explores how new members and regular attenders think about the process of spiritual growth. Based on both focus group interviews with current members and regular attenders, as well as personal interviews with those who are considering or recently joined, we assess how women and men define, envision, and experience the process of growth differently across congregations. Across congregations, spiritual growth involves both increasing unde…

  • Belonging

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Chapter 4 assesses gender differences in the beliefs, practices, and ideas of community that draw women and men toward belonging. We tracked groups of individuals who were visiting or considering joining each congregation and interviewed most of them several times as they worked through the process of considering greater commitment to these congregations. We focus on three aspects of that process—the personal and religious history of prospective …

  • Buildings

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Chapter 2 explores the ways in which local congregations embody and reflect particular sets of religious goods—whether a distinctive sense of history, structure of worship services, or basic beliefs. The embodiment of faith traditions in structures, programs, and clergy goals for congregational life suggest that although denomination itself may be declining as a marker of religious identity, the subcultural distinctives that are the foundations o…

  • Why Won’t Religion Just Go Away?

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    This chapter outlines explanations for the continuing salience of religion in the United States and raises questions about how congregations, including the structures in which they worship, contribute to adult identity for women and men. Beginning with an assessment of current theories of religious markets and religious subcultures, and theories of religious conversion or switching, we make the case that denominational distinctives continue to sh…

  • Becoming

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Chapter 3 explores how people become members at each of these congregations. We examine both the process through which prospective members join and clergy ideas regarding the appropriate content, format, and objectives of the “new member” process. The amount of time it takes to move through this process varies enormously—from a simple affirmation of faith or “letter of transfer” for those coming from the same tradition, to a Saturday morning orie…

  • Gender and Congregational Culture

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Chapter 8 draws these themes together by reflecting on gender, congregational culture, and the persistence of religion in the contemporary United States. We highlight how our analysis demonstrates that denomination, or broad historic tradition, continues to be embodied in the buildings and programs as well as specific teachings and ethos of congregations. For both women and men, connecting to congregations offers a venue in which to experience ad…

  • Changing

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Chapter 7 extends the analysis to questions of how becoming a member has affected women’s and men’s sense of self, relationships with family and friends, and, for some, was associated with experiences of personal and relational change that eventually led them to no longer attend. We find that experiences of change vary across congregations, with greater sense of change among those joining congregations that have higher subcultural boundaries or w…

  • Giving: Narratives of Gender and Joining

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherBOOKGetting to Church2017

    Chapter 6 takes up a second dimension of congregational culture—giving—and assesses the ways in which joining shapes men’s and women’s involvement both within and beyond their individual congregations. We begin with a review of what clergy would like to see happening within their congregations and move on to explore narratives of involvement, volunteering, and ideas about the articulation of faith to politics and social change. In each of these d…

  • Women, Religion and

    Open AccessK Gallagher, Sally K GallagherOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Women's involvement in religion varies depending on whether we are considering personal beliefs and practices or institutional affiliation and leadership. While some women are moving away from traditional western religious institutions because they do not adequately meet their needs or provide the kind of overarching moral narrative that gives meaning to women's lives, religion itself is not inevitably oppressive to women. Gender egalitarianism a…

  • The influence of state maternity leave policies on US mothers' employment

    Clair Clark, K Gallagher et al.ARTICLECommunity Work & Family2017Cited by: 2References: 9

    This study examines the influence of variation in state maternity leave policies on mothers’ employment. Data come from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) [U.S. Census Bureau. (2010 U.S. Census Bureau. (2010). America’s families and living arrangements: 2010 [Data file]. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hhfam/cps2010/tabAVG1.xls [Google Scholar]). America’s families and living arrangements: 2010 (Data fil…

  • Women, Religion and

    Open AccessK Gallagher, Sally K GallagherOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007References: 2

    Women's religious commitments, ideals, and involvement are increasingly of interest to sociologists within both the sociology of religion and other fields. While early research on religion focused on the origins, functions, meaning, and measurement of religion, the past few decades have witnessed a burgeoning interest in women's spirituality, the involvement of women within religious institutions, and religiously based women's social movements. P…

  • Agency, Resources, and Identity: Lower-Income Women's Experiences in Damascus

    Open AccessK Gallagher, Sally K GallagherARTICLEGender & Society2007Cited by: 20References: 14

    Drawing on theories of structure and agency, this article assesses how women in lower-income households in Damascus use existing gender schemas to avoid unattractive employment and improve their access to income and employment. It highlights the overlapping effects of economic policy and gender dependency schemas on both the need for additional income and women's employment opportunities. While providing greater access to resources, women's accom…

  • Children as Religious Resources: The Role of Children in the Social Re-Formation of Class, Culture, and Religious Identity

    Open AccessK Gallagher, Sally K GallagherARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2007Cited by: 7References: 27

    Based on observations and interviews in two churches representing two different strands of American Protestantism, I assess the ways in which children contribute to the social construction of class, culture, and religious identity for adults. Evidence comes from observing how congregations incorporate children into adult worship services and talk about them in texts and programs, and from the ways in which newer and long-term congregation members…

  • Soft Patriarchs; New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands, by W. Bradford Wilcox

    Open AccessK Gallagher, Sally K GallagherARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2005References: 1

  • Building Traditions: Comparing Space, Ritual, and Community in Three Congregations

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherARTICLEReview of Religious Research2005Cited by: 2

  • Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles

    K Gallagher, Sally K Gallagher et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2005

    Journal Article Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles, by Julie Ingersoll. New York: New York University Press, 2003, 208 pp.; $55.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paper) Get access Sally K. Gallagher Sally K. Gallagher Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 207–208, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153090 Published: 01 July…

  • Godly Manhood Going Wild: Transformations in Conservative Protestant Masculinity

    K Gallagher, Sally K Gallagher et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2005Cited by: 20

    Journal Article Godly Manhood Going Wild?: Transformations in Conservative Protestant Masculinity Get access Sally K. Gallagher, Sally K. Gallagher * Oregon State University *Direct correspondence to: Sally K. Gallagher, Department of Sociology, Fairbanks 307, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3703; email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sabrina L. Wood Sabrina L. Woo…

  • Evangelical Women in Belfast: Imprisoned or Empowered

    K Gallagher, Sally K Gallagher et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2004

    Journal Article Evangelical Women in Belfast: Imprisoned or Empowered? by Sandra M. Baillie. New York: Palgrave, 2002, 264 pp., $69.95 (cloth) Get access Sally K. Gallagher Sally K. Gallagher Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 3, Fall 2004, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712255 Published: 01 October 2004

  • The Marginalization of Evangelical Feminism

    K Gallagher, Sally K GallagherARTICLESociology of Religion2004Cited by: 19

    Drawing on the theory of religious subcultural strength this article proposes an explanation for the failure of evangelical feminism to substantially replace hegemonic ideas of gender hierarchy and difference among American evangelicals. Although a thread of discourse supporting partnership and mutuality between women and men has a long history within Christianity, it is not until the nineteenth century that it emerges as a viable alternative to …

  • Where Are the Antifeminist Evangelicals: Evangelical Identity, Subcultural Location, and Attitudes toward Feminism

    Open AccessK Gallagher, Sally K GallagherARTICLEGender & Society2004Cited by: 22References: 12

    Based on data from a national survey and personal interviews with more than 300 religiously committed Protestants, this analysis assesses the range and location of attitudes toward feminism among conservative Protestants. Findings suggest that evangelicals are not uniformly antifeminist. Rather, the majority are both supportive and appreciative of the gains of liberal feminism as well as concerned that feminism has gotten off track by promoting a…

  • Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements

    K Gallagher, Sally K Gallagher et al.ARTICLESociology of Religion2003

    Journal Article Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements, by Richard T. Antoun. New York: AltaMira, 2001, 181 pp.; $69.00 (Cloth), $19.95 (paper) Get access Sally K. Gallagher Sally K. Gallagher Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Fall 2003, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712493 Published: 01 October 2003

  • Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families

    K Gallagher, Sally K Gallagher et al.REVIEWReview of Religious Research2001

  • Men's Caregiving: Gender and the Contingent Character of Care

    Open AccessNaomi Gerstel, K Gallagher et al.ARTICLEGender & Society2001Cited by: 57References: 29

    This article extends recent scholarship on masculinity by analyzing the effects of social structure, social relations, and gendered caregiving ideology on the care men give to kin and friends. To be sure, men spend significantly less time giving care than do women. However, much variation is contingent on the women in men's lives: It is primarily the characteristics of men's families (including wives' caregiving; the presence of young children, e…

  • Connections and Constraints: The Effects of Children on Caregiving

    Open AccessK Gallagher, Sally K Gallagher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2001Cited by: 30References: 35

    This article assesses the effects of children on parents' involvement in caregiving. On the basis of interviews with 273 respondents, we address the effects of having children on care given to kin and nonkin; assess the effects of children's characteristics, especially age and gender, on the help mothers and fathers provide; and examine how these vary with mothers' employment. Overall, we find that the presence of children connects parents into n…