Bourdieu, Capital, and Conflict in a Religious Field: The Case of the ‘Homosexuality’ Conflict in the Anglican Communion

McKinnon, Andrew; Trzebiatowska, Marta; Brittain, Christopher Craig

doi:10.1080/13537903.2011.616033

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“…His theories on religion have been little-utilised in relation to social class (Rey 2008). This lacuna may have developed because it is not necessarily sociologists who have appropriated Bourdieu's writings on religion (McKinnon and Trzebiatowska 2011). Meanwhile class scholarship rarely references religion.…”

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Anglican Clergy Husbands Securing Middle-Class Gendered Privilege through Religion

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Traditionally, clergy wives have been obliged to assist the Church in an unpaid capacity; such work has been feminised, associated with the assumed competencies of women ( Denton 1962 ; Finch 1980 , 1983 ; Murphy-Geiss 2011 ). Clergy husbands are a relatively recent phenomenon in the Church of England, emerging when women started to be ordained as deacons in 1987 and priests in 1994. Based on interviews with men whose wives were ordained as priests in the Church of England, this article will explore the dynamics of class and gender privilege. Most clergy husbands were middle class, defined through educational, occupational and cultural markers ( Bourdieu 1984 ). The narratives highlighted how gender and class privilege was maintained and extended through the clergy spouse role. The interweaving dynamics of class and gender privilege secured preferential outcomes for participants, outcomes that were less evidenced in relation to working-class spouses. Using Bourdieu's (1984) concepts of habitus, field and capital and Verter's (2003) conceptualisation of spiritual capital, this article will highlight the complex ways in which gender and class advantage is perpetuated and sustained, using the Anglican parish as the analytical context, thereby emphasising the role religion plays in consolidating privilege.

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“…A lot of research inspired by Bourdieu has focused on inequality, and in some of this work the notion of ‘field’ is used in the general sense of ‘social field’ rather than with particular attention to the differentiation of spheres associated with modern societies. This has been especially prominent in British sociology, where research on organizations and professions is relatively less central to sociology than in the US or Germany, for example (but see, e.g., Couldry ; Thompson ; McKinnon, Trzebiakowska and Brittain ). There is a tension among Bourdieu's own studies of fields, some of which are primarily concerned to show how positions in fields relate to class positions of origin (e.g., Bourdieu and de Saint‐Martin ) and others focus more on intra‐professional distinctions (e.g., Bourdieu ).…”

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How fields vary

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2017

British Journal of Sociology

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Field theorists have long insisted that research needs to pay attention to the particular properties of each field studied. But while much field-theoretical research is comparative, either explicitly or implicitly, scholars have only begun to develop the language for describing the dimensions along which fields can be similar to and different from each other. In this context, this paper articulates an agenda for the analysis of variable properties of fields. It discusses variation in the degree but also in the kind of field autonomy. It discusses different dimensions of variation in field structure: fields can be more or less contested, and more or less hierarchical. The structure of symbolic oppositions in a field may take different forms. Lastly, it analyses the dimensions of variation highlighted by research on fields on the sub- and transnational scale. Post-national analysis allows us to ask how fields relate to fields of the same kind on different scales, and how fields relate to fields on the same scale in other national contexts. It allows us to ask about the role resources from other scales play in structuring symbolic oppositions within fields. A more fine-tuned vocabulary for field variation can help us better describe particular fields and it is a precondition for generating hypotheses about the conditions under which we can expect to observe fields with specified characteristics.

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“…Rather, he emphasized the necessity of empirical research in determining the existence and the boundaries of any specific field in any given time and place (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992, 100-101). In this vein, Bourdieu's theorizations on religion have been used to successfully identify local religious fields and capital, and to analyze religious specialists' strategies for accumulating power and position, in various geographical and historical contexts (Fer 2010;Ladwig 2011;Maduro 2005;McKinnon, Trzebiatowska, and Brittain 2011;Rey 1998;Urban 2003). Several recent studies inquire specifically into the organization of the religious field under conditions of heightened pluralism (Wood 2007;Wood and Bunn 2009).…”

Section: The Religious Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lifelong Religion as Habitus

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2016

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Bourdieu, Capital, and Conflict in a Religious Field: The Case of the ‘Homosexuality’ Conflict in the Anglican Communion

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Anglican Clergy Husbands Securing Middle-Class Gendered Privilege through Religion

Anglican Clergy Husbands Securing Middle-Class Gendered Privilege through Religion

How fields vary

Lifelong Religion as Habitus

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