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The fourth chapter offers an analysis of the social processes involved in becoming a pastor. It analyses the internal dynamics of pastorship and more concretely looks at how pastoral callings are narrated, how a calling is approved and validated by the social surroundings, the establishment of spiritual genealogies, and how young pastors draw on the legitimacy of senior pastors. It also discusses the training of young pastors, the work pastors do, as well as processes of formalisation when building up a new church. I approach pastorship as profession and as a destiny. This implies that pastorship is both a career trajectory that requires training and certain skills and at the same time, a trajectory pastors engage in because of a spiritual calling.
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Lauterbach, K. (2017). The Craft of Pastorship. In: Christianity, Wealth, and Spiritual Power in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33494-3_4
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