Managing Clergy Lives

1 In Search of Priesthood 1.1 Parish clergy and the Church of England 2 'Lights still burn in vicarage windows' 1.3 The ordination of women 2 Describing Clergy Lives 2.1 The research sample 2.2 Clergy optimism 2.3 Faithful community pastors 3 Obedient Clergy Bodies 3.1. The panopticon of ordination 3.2 Promise and praxis - Life in the vicarage Collared: visible and vulnerable 3.3 Bodies out of place? Gender and race - Reverend mother: the baby in the priestly body Daniel: embodying race 3.4 Getting to the finishing line 4 The Sacrificial Embrace 4.1 Sacrificial agency: governing the soul - Sacrificial Embrace: a meta-theme Sacrificial selves 4.2 Vocational professionalism - Professional identity Women and professional work Gender and impression management Clergy professionalism: cultivating virtue Clergy accountability: ministerial review 4.3 Clergy careers: ambition, preferment and disappointment 4.4 Labour without reward - Pauline's account Stipends and pension worries Housing anxieties A household contract? Accumulative opportunity cost 4.5 Emotional labour 5 Lost Intimacies 5.1 Personal relationships 5.2 Relationships in organisations - Church as a moral community Organisational sexuality Friendship 5.3 Clergy marriages - The transformation of intimacy Married to the ministry? Marriages at risk 5.4 Family practices - Happy families? Two clergy couples Clergy households and work-home balance 5.5 Home alone? Secrets and sexuality - Issues and secrets: clergy sexuality Single clergy Gay clergy 5.6 The erosion of intimacy 6 Still priestly after all these years 6.1 The research participants: where are they now? 6.2 Holy representative: Minister of Word and Sacrament 6.3 Priest and person: belonging and believing 6.4 Finding priesthood and understanding authenticity 7 Prospects for priesthood 7.1 Feminization of the clergy 7.2 Designer ministries 7.3 Disestablishment and the end of the parish? 7.4 Valuing, acknowledging and reinforcing the role of clergy

Agency (philosophy) · Human sexuality · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Religion, Society, and Development · Church of england, clergy · Priesthood