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What is State Supervisor

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#MeToo Issues in Religious-Based Institutions and Organizations
The name given to a woman who organizes women’s work and presides over a jurisdiction in a particular state. She is the complement to a bishop in a state and officiates with the name change (formally overseer ) under the new church structure.
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Gender Relations in the Black Church: Pentecostal Ecclesiology and Women's Leadership Roles in Transition
Cynthia B. Bragg (Morgan State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9195-5.ch005
Abstract
This chapter examines the lived experiences of women in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and presents a model for partnership in leadership with clerics and churchwomen. The model is based on the premise of the visionary founder and “Chief Apostle” of this denomination. Histories of churchwomen in this organization portray them as staunch supporters of ministries in the church. Women in leadership roles were defined by the founder as overseers—a term suggesting honorary prestige to women that was equal to clerical positions in the church. Following the death of the founder, however, churchwomen encountered barriers to leadership positions which lowered their status and authority thus impacting their inclusion, agency, and voice in matters of church leadership and governance.
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