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• Title: Professionalization of Islamic Ministry in America Components of the Legitimizing Process in Western Society (Essay)
• Author : Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 238 KB

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Any self-respecting clergyman, Christian, Jewish, or Muslim, will energetically contend that their work in ministry is the result of their being called to it out of a sense of religious duty. Some, depending on the tradition and denomination, will go so far as to argue that it was God Himself who called them to the work of ministry and some will even recount the actual moment of divine intervention. others, however, will be much more subdued and philosophical, even pragmatic, in suggesting that their entry into the profession of ministry was due to such things as family tradition and expectation, professional aspirations, educational enticements, etc., without going so far as to invoke the name of God in the "call" process AT ALL. Whatever the motivation, ministry is more than the result of divine intervention. It is a profession, and it is our intention in this study to point out just how professional it is and can be. As has been stated earlier, it is not our intention to hold forth on the "theological" nature of ministry. We leave that to the theologians of the three major monotheistic traditions. We are focusing upon the "professional" rather than the "religious" nature of ministry. In doing SO, we will highlight five characteristic categories applicable to all three great traditions. We will also use as comparative models the professions of law and medicine as a sort of north star to guide us into and through the "professional" nature of ministry, since law and medicine have been particularly successful in carving out for themselves a level of respectability the likes of which no other profession has approximated except, possibly, the ministry.

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