When approached for spiritual and emotional support, many religious leaders avoid pastoral care outreach to persons who have been previously incarcerated. Rather than embracing and guiding the ex-offender toward spiritual and emotional healing, many faith leaders treat those who…
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Authority is a social relation between two parties. In sociology, authority is the legitimate power that one person or a group holds and exercises over another(Giddens, 1997). Sociologist Max Weber significantly divided authority into three types: traditional type, charismatic t…
Religion affects politics at multiple levels and demonstrating those influences is vital to understanding religion's entanglement upon politics. This study uses both quantitative and qualitative data to shed light on this relationship. First, it employs using the 2014 U.S. Relig…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how RLs describe their understanding of leadership skills, strategizing for the implementation of leadership skills and evaluating how their leadership skills influence parishioner retention in a charismatic Christ…
This qualitative descriptive study explored religious leaders and mental health providers' perceptions and how they describe collaborating to assist clients/faith-community members seeking mental health treatment for emotional well-being. The overarching research question that g…
The leadership styles of religious leaders are therefore questionable as to whether they are in line with the 21st century paradigm shift of leadership styles characterized by career professional leaders. The problem addressed by this study is that the bias and existing paradigm…
Innovation competency among religious leaders has been an area of study as nonprofit researchers continue to discover that conventional ways of managing change are no longer effective when tackling present issues. Discussions regarding using innovation competency to manage chang…
This dissertation analyzes the way in which spiritual leaders representing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam perceive terrorism. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore how Rabbis, Priests, and Imams/Sheiks from three monotheistic religions define and justi…