This article is based on a conference paper of the same title
presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association for
the Sociology of Religion held from 12-14 August 2017 in
Montreal, Canada.
This article focus on one of the core categories, namely conflict,
of the author’s PhD dissertation (University of Pretoria,
Dec 2012, supervised by Prof Yolanda Dreyer. (http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27595)
It is the third
in a proposed series of conference papers and articles
focusing on different categories comprising the reasons, as
discovered through a grounded theory exploration, why
clergy leave full-time pastoral ministry at a church.