東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Learning to lead: Factors that contr...

Patterson, Brian K.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Learning to lead: Factors that contribute to leadership legitimacy for pastors of rural county churches in South China.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Learning to lead: Factors that contribute to leadership legitimacy for pastors of rural county churches in South China./
Author:	Patterson, Brian K.
Description:	361 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Donald Douglas.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-06A.
Subject:	Education, Religious. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3272670
ISBN:	9780549122197

Learning to lead: Factors that contribute to leadership legitimacy for pastors of rural county churches in South China.
Patterson, Brian K.

Learning to lead: Factors that contribute to leadership legitimacy for pastors of rural county churches in South China. - 361 p.

Adviser: Donald Douglas.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, 2007.

China's churches have experienced tremendous change from oppression to rapid growth to a transfer of leadership to a group of younger leaders. Using grid-group theory and implicit leadership theory, I study the formal, nonformal, and informal educational processes by which younger pastors learn how to lead and attain leadership legitimacy in county-level rural churches of South China. Grid-group theory explains that individual behavior within any social environment is constrained by the combined factors of group orientation and role specialization that define that environment, while implicit leadership theory posits that there are culture specific idealizations of leadership traits that are unarticulated but nonetheless strongly held. Together these theories show that leaders are accepted by followers only to the extent that match the expectations of their followers. I find that Chinese pastors attain leadership legitimacy through an informal, personal apprenticeship to established local church leaders, in which the learn to narrate their life stories so as to demonstrate an unusual experience of God's grace and power in their conversion, a settled conviction of God's call to lifelong service, and a willingness to sacrifice personal comfort and/or material gain in order to accept the burden of leadership. The pastors informally learn how to exhibit a set of character traits, including humility, authenticity, propriety, and wisdom that are advocated by traditional Chinese values and interpreted through Chinese Christian perspective; by gaining superior knowledge, ministry skills, and status through the successful completion a series of loosely ranked nonformal and formal training programs endorsed by the hierarchy of provincial church leadership and by informally learning how to manage contradictions that arise in relationships due to competing interests between themselves and their congregations, among believers, and between the local church and relevant government agencies.

ISBN: 9780549122197Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017705
Education, Religious.

Learning to lead: Factors that contribute to leadership legitimacy for pastors of rural county churches in South China.
LDR:02957nam 2200277 a 45 001 955531
005 20110622
008 110622s2007 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780549122197
035 $a (UMI)AAI3272670
035 $a AAI3272670
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Patterson, Brian K. $3 1278995
245 1 0 $a Learning to lead: Factors that contribute to leadership legitimacy for pastors of rural county churches in South China.
300 $a 361 p.
500 $a Adviser: Donald Douglas.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: 2386.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University, 2007.
520 $a China's churches have experienced tremendous change from oppression to rapid growth to a transfer of leadership to a group of younger leaders. Using grid-group theory and implicit leadership theory, I study the formal, nonformal, and informal educational processes by which younger pastors learn how to lead and attain leadership legitimacy in county-level rural churches of South China. Grid-group theory explains that individual behavior within any social environment is constrained by the combined factors of group orientation and role specialization that define that environment, while implicit leadership theory posits that there are culture specific idealizations of leadership traits that are unarticulated but nonetheless strongly held. Together these theories show that leaders are accepted by followers only to the extent that match the expectations of their followers. I find that Chinese pastors attain leadership legitimacy through an informal, personal apprenticeship to established local church leaders, in which the learn to narrate their life stories so as to demonstrate an unusual experience of God's grace and power in their conversion, a settled conviction of God's call to lifelong service, and a willingness to sacrifice personal comfort and/or material gain in order to accept the burden of leadership. The pastors informally learn how to exhibit a set of character traits, including humility, authenticity, propriety, and wisdom that are advocated by traditional Chinese values and interpreted through Chinese Christian perspective; by gaining superior knowledge, ministry skills, and status through the successful completion a series of loosely ranked nonformal and formal training programs endorsed by the hierarchy of provincial church leadership and by informally learning how to manage contradictions that arise in relationships due to competing interests between themselves and their congregations, among believers, and between the local church and relevant government agencies.
590 $a School code: 0993.
650 4 $a Education, Religious. $3 1017705
650 4 $a Religion, Clergy. $3 1017702
690 $a 0319
690 $a 0527
710 2 $a School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University. $3 1024494
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 68-06A.
790 $a 0993
790 1 0 $a Douglas, Donald, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2007
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3272670