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- Title: Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender and Christianity.
- Author : Journal of Psychology and Theology
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 178 KB
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It is with pleasure that we write this introduction to our special issue on Gender and Christianity. This issue represents a logical next step in a research endeavor that has been a focus of ours for the past several years. It began with a discussion regarding whether or not it would be possible to arrange our time, both professionally and personally, to pursue our interests in mentoring students in research and gender issues. Little did we know that this "balance" between the personal and the professional would come to be a central theme that would be defined and redefined, in our research and our personal lives, throughout the years that followed. Along the way we found new terminology that seemed to capture our experiences and the experiences of our participants. An example of this is our movement away from the term "balancing" and toward the more descriptive, experiential term of "weaving;" a concept that flowed from one participant's description of her life as both professor and mother (Hall, Anderson, & Willingham, 2004). In researching the lives of women who are professionals and/or academicians, as well as mothers we found glimpses of our own lives and nuances that were both delightfully and poignantly unexpected. Our students have joined us on the journey, resulting in dissertations, publications and presentations (e.g., Carruthers, 2003; Deweese, 2004; Lee, submitted for publication; Phanco, 2004; Thorstad, in press), but as they have since shared with us, more importantly they gained a much desired insight into, "How does one really manage both family and career?" Hopefully, what they have witnessed is the reality that there is no perfect weave. Each life (cloth) is a unique blend of threads and colors.