JAN BERRY
Biographic Data
| ID | 6181818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | JAN BERRY |
| GIVEN NAMES | JAN |
| FAMILY NAME | BERRY |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Theological EducationManchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Changing Lives, Changing Rites
This article looks at rituals which women create to mark transitions in their lives, arguing that ritual making is an intentional process of constructing identity and theology. Rituals function as enacted narrative, helping the women who perform them to construct identity, and gain a sense of agency and empowerment. Through the rituals, meanings are shared and the political dimensions of private experience explored. The article concludes by consi…
Strange union
Unions and policing are a relatively under‐researched area. But this paper, adopting a comparative approach, argues that police unions have been and still are influential, that they differ across cultures, and are involved in a variety of ways in police reform. They can be supportive of change, hostile to it, or closely involved in the reform process. Some are representative bodies where the police may not unionize while there are increasingly sp…
Whose Threshold? Women's Strategies of Ritualization
This article looks at the growing practice of women's ritualization, in which women are devising and enacting their own rituals to mark life events. It examines Turner's work on liminality and offers a feminist critique. It then goes on to explore women's ritual as a conscious and intentional strategy, drawing on Catherine Bell's work and extracts from interviews. Finally, it poses questions about the ways in which women's ritual may be seen as s…
Nicola Slee, Praying Like A Woman
Elizabeth Stuart, Gay and Lesbian Theologies
Improving Substance Abuse Treatment for Indigent Clients in Detroit
It has been clearly established that substance abuse treatment works (De Leon 1988). Thus, activities which increase the proportion of indigent clients in Detroit who actually get into treatment and activities which help indigent clients stay in treatment are likely to significantly improve treatment outcomes. The Target Cities projects in general and the Detroit Target Cities project in particular represent some of the few efforts currently unde…
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Improving Substance Abuse Treatment for Indigent Clients in Detroit
It has been clearly established that substance abuse treatment works (De Leon 1988). Thus, activities which increase the proportion of indigent clients in Detroit who actually get into treatment and activities which help indigent clients stay in treatment are likely to significantly improve treatment outcomes. The Target Cities projects in general and the Detroit Target Cities project in particular represent some of the few efforts currently unde…
Elizabeth Stuart, Gay and Lesbian Theologies
Whose Threshold? Women's Strategies of Ritualization
This article looks at the growing practice of women's ritualization, in which women are devising and enacting their own rituals to mark life events. It examines Turner's work on liminality and offers a feminist critique. It then goes on to explore women's ritual as a conscious and intentional strategy, drawing on Catherine Bell's work and extracts from interviews. Finally, it poses questions about the ways in which women's ritual may be seen as s…
Nicola Slee, Praying Like A Woman
Strange union
Unions and policing are a relatively under‐researched area. But this paper, adopting a comparative approach, argues that police unions have been and still are influential, that they differ across cultures, and are involved in a variety of ways in police reform. They can be supportive of change, hostile to it, or closely involved in the reform process. Some are representative bodies where the police may not unionize while there are increasingly sp…
Changing Lives, Changing Rites
This article looks at rituals which women create to mark transitions in their lives, arguing that ritual making is an intentional process of constructing identity and theology. Rituals function as enacted narrative, helping the women who perform them to construct identity, and gain a sense of agency and empowerment. Through the rituals, meanings are shared and the political dimensions of private experience explored. The article concludes by consi…
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