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Leaving the Adventist Ministry: A Study of the Social Process of Exit

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avondale-bepress.context-key12040537
avondale-bepress.submission-paththeses_non_Avondale/86
avondale.affiliateBallis, Peter
avondale.reporting.versionPublished Version
avondale.thesis.awardingInstitutionLa Trobe University
avondale.thesis.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.contributor.authorBallis, Peter H.
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T00:26:44Z
dc.date.available2023-11-01T00:26:44Z
dc.date.issued1995-12-01
dc.date.submitted2018-04-29T22:55:14Z
dc.description.abstract<p>This study inquires into the processes whereby conservative and committed sectarian pastors began to entertain doubts concerning the sectarian cause, questioned their occupational 'calling' and commitment to ministry. Using the data gathered from unstructured in-depth interviews with 43 expastors and from other sources, detailed case study profiles are developed which highlight at what points in their careers expastors had begun contemplating leaving ministry and the types of experiences they associate with exit.</p> <p>More than 180 pastors exited the Seventh-day Adventist ministry in Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1988. The loss is equivalent to an astonishing 40 per cent of the total Adventist ministerial workforce in these two countries, a statistic without precedent in the Adventist church at any other time or in any other place.</p>
dc.identifier.citation<p>Ballis, P. H. (1995). <em>Leaving the Adventist ministry: A study of the social process of exit</em>(Doctoral dissertation). La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.</p>
dc.identifier.urihttps://research.avondale.edu.au/handle/1897/12040537
dc.language.isoen_us
dc.rights<p>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis. School of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, La Trobe University.</p> <p>Staff and Students of Avondale College may access this thesis from the Avondale Adventist Heritage Centre (AHC 1378).</p>
dc.subjectSeventh-day Adventist church; ministers; leave; exit
dc.titleLeaving the Adventist Ministry: A Study of the Social Process of Exit
dc.typeThesis

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