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Making Structural Change with Relational Power: A Gender Analysis of Faith-Based Community Organizing
- Source :
- Social Inclusion, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 24-32 (2019), Social Inclusion, Exhausted women-exhausted welfare: understanding religion, gender and welfare in social inclusion
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Cogitatio, 2019.
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Abstract
- This article presents research on faith-based community organizing in the US to examine how congregation members engage in structural change efforts related to marginalized populations. Examining the case of one organizing model, justice ministry, congregations focus on power defined through relationships, cultivated in informal spaces, and communicated through personal narrative (traditionally private, feminine spheres), and change is enacted by creating tension in public (traditionally masculine) spaces with decision-makers. A growing body of literature presents nuanced gender analyses of policy advocacy, social movements, and community change efforts both in terms of strategic models of action and revisiting our understanding of historical movements. We ask questions about how the expectations and work are constrained or facilitated by cultural expectations of gender roles and power dynamics. Examining the organizing model of justice ministry through a gender lens helps to understand how an emphasis on relational power (traditionally gendered as feminine) facilitates and strengthens the use of a range of tools, including publicly challenging authority (more frequently gendered as masculine). While the private/public, feminine/masculine dichotomy has severe limitations and risks oversimplification, the utility remains in helping name and challenge real power differentials based on gender.
- Subjects :
- Justiz
Organisationen
Sociology and Political Science
analysis
Macht
power analysis
United States of America
Sociology & anthropology
power
gender
Policy advocacy
Sociology
Social movement
media_common
Community organizing
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
achievement
Organisationssoziologie, Militärsoziologie
Public relations
Organizational Sociology
Religion
lcsh:Sociology (General)
justice ministry
religion
ddc:300
judiciary
ddc:301
Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject
lcsh:HM401-1281
Economic Justice
Faith
Power (social and political)
Leistung
Gender analysis
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
USA
relational power
organizations
Religionssoziologie
Personal narrative
business.industry
Geschlecht
faith-based community organizing
Analyse
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Ministerium
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Sociology of Religion
ministry
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21832803
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Inclusion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d07d2d00b923f196be34ad2ebb7ffdc4