Conversations about the religious and spiritual life on the other side of fundamentalism
 
254:  When a Woman Leads the Church:  Women’s Ordination in the USA:  Benjamin Knoll & Cammie-Jo Bolin

254: When a Woman Leads the Church: Women’s Ordination in the USA: Benjamin Knoll & Cammie-Jo Bolin

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Benjamin Knoll and Cammie-Jo Bollin discuss their new book, ‘She Preached the Word:  Women’s Ordination in Modern America.’

Their study uses novel survey data that reveals a surprising relationship between political orientation and an acceptance of women’s ordination.   This, of course,  raises one of America’s most pressing questions: How strongly are America’s religious sensibilities shaped by their much polarized US political scene?

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