Clergy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Further reading== ===Clergy in general=== * Aston, Nigel. ''Religion and revolution in France, 1780-1804'' (CUA Press, 2000) * Bremer, Francis J. ''Shaping New Englands: Puritan Clergymen in Seventeenth-Century England and New England'' (Twayne, 1994) * Dutt, Sukumar. ''Buddhist monks and monasteries of India'' (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1962) * [[Nancy Farriss|Farriss, Nancy Marguerite]]. ''Crown and clergy in colonial Mexico, 1759-1821: The crisis of ecclesiastical privilege'' (Burns & Oates, 1968) * Ferguson, Everett. ''The Early Church at Work and Worship: Volume 1: Ministry, Ordination, Covenant, and Canon'' (Casemate Publishers, 2014) * Freeze, Gregory L. ''The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Crisis, Reform, Counter-Reform'' (Princeton University Press, 1983) * Haig, Alan. ''The Victorian Clergy'' (Routledge, 1984), in England * Holifield, E. Brooks. ''God's ambassadors: a history of the Christian clergy in America'' (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007), a standard scholarly history * Lewis, Bonnie Sue. ''Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003) * Marshall, Peter. ''The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation'' (Clarendon Press, 1994) * Osborne, Kenan B. ''Priesthood: A history of ordained ministry in the Roman Catholic Church'' (Paulist Press, 1989), a standard scholarly history * Parry, Ken, ed. ''The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2010) * Sanneh, Lamin. "The origins of clericalism in West African Islam". ''The Journal of African History'' 17.01 (1976): 49β72. * Schwarzfuchs, Simon. ''A concise history of the rabbinate'' (Blackwell, 1993), a standard scholarly history * Zucker, David J. ''American rabbis: Facts and fiction'' (Jason Aronson, 1998) ===Female clergy=== * Amico, Eleanor B., ed. ''Reader's Guide to Women's Studies'' ( Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998), pp 131β33; historiography * Collier-Thomas, Bettye. ''Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons'' (1997). * Flowers, Elizabeth H. ''Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II'' (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2012) * Maloney, Linda M. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20160316015427/http://newtheologyreview.com/index.php/ntr/article/viewFile/328/503 Women in Ministry in the Early Church]". ''New Theology Review'' 16.2 (2013). * Ruether, Rosemary Radford. "Should Women Want Women Priests or Women-Church?". ''Feminist Theology'' 20.1 (2011): 63β72. * Tucker, Ruth A. and Walter L. Liefeld. ''Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry from New Testament Times to the Present'' (1987), historical survey of female Christian clergy Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page