Clergy in UK Law
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Mapping the everyday life information needs of catholic clergy: Savolainen’s ELIS model revisited
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the pattern of everyday life information needs of a group of people in an area with limited access to information, and to investigate how the major...
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Who and What Affects the First Estate? An Analysis of Clergy Attitudes on Cultural and Economic Issues
Since the 1980s, scholars have come to appreciate the role clergy have in shaping the political attitudes and behaviour of the faithful. Through their leadership in self-selecting religious context...
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White collar crime: vulnerable women, predatory clergymen
This paper examines themes that emerge from supporting adults who have been sexually violated by Church ministers and clergy. The author suggests that despite obstacles put in place by churches of ...... ... guidanceabstractThis paper examines themesthat emerge from supporting adultswho have been sexually violated byChurch ministers and clergy.Theauthor suggests that despiteobstacles put in place by churches ofall denominations, victims arebeginning to speak out.PEER·REVIEWEDPolicy and ... ...
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MONEY, SEX AND RELIGION: THE CASE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
This empirical study addresses whether the gender of a minister has any effect on remuneration in the Church of Scotland in 2004. The data set merges three cross‐sectional sources, namely denominat...... ... Moreover, conditional on eligibility, there is evidence that male clergy are more likely to receive this bonus. The data are unable to discriminate between demand and supply side explanations of these findings. I Intro ... ...
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New on the Net
CAM (Computerised AIDS Ministries Network) is a programme of the Health and Welfare Ministries Program Department, General Board of Global Ministries, of The United Methodist Church and is based in...... ... You do not have to be a professional person em-ployed in the HIV field. You do not have to be ordained clergy. You do not have to be HIV positive. You do not have to be United Methodist. A broad range of persons with varied levels of information about HIV use ... ...
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Reframing financial abuse of parishioners: an analysis of a Church of England disciplinary tribunal hearing regarding Rev. Karl Wray
Purpose: Traditional understandings of financial abuse are limited to particular situations and people who have close access to vulnerable adults. This paper aims to add to a debate that intends to...... ... Design/methodology/approach –Focusing on exploringthe minutes of Church of England disciplinarytribunals, held to provide accountability for clergy, this paper considers how the church seeks torepresentand construct the victims of financialabuse.Findings –The paper identifies that the victims ... ...
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Implementation of the Article 13 Directives in Dutch Equal Treatment Legislation
In the Netherlands, an elaborate legal system of legislative protection against discrimination has been in place since 1994. Partly with the aim of implementing the Article 13 Directives, two new s...... ... nce that the ETA does not apply to legal relations w ithin religious communities or other associations of a spiritua l nature, nor to the clergy.18 In addition, pu rely interna l a airs of ‘closed’ associations, clubs and socie ties remain outside the scope of protection.19 is means ... ...
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From “intrusive” and “excessive” to financially abusive? Charitable and religious fund-raising amongst vulnerable older people
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of both charitable and religious fundraising amongst vulnerable older adults. It is a practice that is hidden and opaque. The circumsta...... ... Therelationship between clergy and their aging congregation, who are relied upon to raise funds for churchactivities, open up the opportunity for abuse to take to place. Few ... ...
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Book Review: Homa Omid, Islam and the Post-Revolutionary State in Iran (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 263 pp., £45.00 hbk.)
... ... 345 Within this time-span, Homa Omid identifies three distinct periods. The first witnessed the rise of the clergy as a dominant force against the state. During this period, the decline of the Qajar dynasty and its subsequent demise, as well ... ...
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The Religious Alignment at English Elections between 1918 and 1970
Before World War I religion was a major determinant of voting in Britain. Butler and Stokes have used recent interview surveys, divided into cohorts, to trace the declining effect of religion on Br...
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