James E. Dittes

RESEARCH ON CLERGYMEN: FACTORS INFLUENCING DECISIONS FOR RELIGIOUS SERVICE AND EFFECTIVENESS IN THE VOCATION

1 Appreciation is due many persons who have been willing to share with me the procedures and tentative results of research still in progress; I hope that their trust in my reporting of it has not b...

Some Accidents, Coincidents, and Intents: A Vocational Narrative

I offer here a narrative of vocation. It is not a psychological history, a mustering of affections and anxieties and aversions, a prowl through my unconscious. It is not a history of ideas, a recital of those connections or boundaries or passions of thought I have paused to notice. It is not a comment on other papers assembled here—which I have not yet seen—though perhaps it is a way of expressing appreciation for them. It is a chronicle of events and activities that have nudged me into one arena or contest or vocabulary rather than another.