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Explores how women religious leaders develop and practice self-confidence and humility and transform these qualities into a form of collaborative leadership.
Considering the many challenges women leaders face, self-confidence and humility are among the most crucial yet controversial leadership qualities for women. However, they are often seen as individual personality traits rather than having been developed intentionally and out of necessity in women's sociopolitical, religious, and cultural lives. Using religious women leaders as examples, this book illustrates how women actively build self-confidence and humility amid multiple intersectionalities and transform these qualities into a form of collaborative leadership within their religious ministerial roles. Recognizing the complex processes involved in women's leadership development, the book demonstrates how both women leaders and religious women leaders practice self-confidence and humility based on their experiences of otherness and how they navigate challenges within their gendered leadership contexts. It examines women's experiences of otherness through gender roles and the glass ceiling and analyzes the ideas of self-confidence and humility across various sociocultural and religious settings.
"This is an important contribution to understanding more intricately the internalized challenges of women in religious roles, regardless of their tradition. The diversity of scholars and perspectives cited make it a valuable resource, particularly as the author delves into Asian women's leadership for a more global perspective. One of the book's greatest strengths is its contribution of original research through interviews with women religious leaders, and the final chapter's theological and theoretical contributions, based on these interviews, are the highlight of the book." — Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Iliff School of Theology
Choi Hee An is Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology. Her previous books include A Postcolonial Relationship: Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other and A Postcolonial Leadership: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges, both published by SUNY Press.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Experience of Women's Otherness in Leadership
2. Practices of Women's Otherness in Leadership: Intersectionality Between Self-Confidence and Humility
3. Transformation of Women's Otherness in Leadership: Collaborative Leadership
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index