The Priest's Husband

Clergy self-concepts provide an important resource for research into the psychosocial pressures that often breed domestic tension and marital discord in ministerial families. More than 30 years ago the Journal of Religion and Health published (15:3, 1976) Platt and Moss's initial study of clerg...

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Authors: Platt, Nancy Van Dyke (Author) ; Moss, David M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2010]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2010, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-244
Further subjects:B Ecclesiastical change
B Sexual Equality
B Episcopal Church
B Clergy families
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:Clergy self-concepts provide an important resource for research into the psychosocial pressures that often breed domestic tension and marital discord in ministerial families. More than 30 years ago the Journal of Religion and Health published (15:3, 1976) Platt and Moss's initial study of clergy families, research focused on the self-perceptions of the wives of Episcopal priests. That investigation explored some of the intrapsychic ingredients and interpersonal concerns of these women. Oden now concentrates on clergy spouses from a different vantage—the historically recent phenomenon of the Episcopal priest's husband. This article grows out of the first formal study of such a growing parochial reality. Husbands of priests present novel issues because there has never been anyone like them before. They are men who will inevitably find themselves confronted by congregational expectations that can modify their self-concepts and retailer their marriages, "for better or for worse".
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-009-9260-z