Gender differences in the integration literature: A content analysis of JPT and TPC by gender and integration type

The current project asks the questions: Do "women's ways of knowing," parti cularly women's ways of knowing God as evidenced in the literature on women 's spirituality, imply that women have a unique contribution to make to the integration literature! Do feminine perspectives on integration provide a necessary 'corrective' to the largely theoretical literature! Based on a re view of feminist contributions to theology, spirituality, philosophy, and p sychology, it was hypothesized that female authors' contributions to the in tegration literature would emphasize practical, clinical, and experiential integration. A content analysis of the past ten years of integration articl es in the Journal of Psychology and Theology and the Journal of Psychology and Christianity was conducted to examine the relationship between gender a nd type of integration. Significant variations in the frequency of male and female first authorship across types of integration were found. Gender dif ferences in the frequency of interdisciplinary, intradisciplinary-clinical, and faith-praxis integration articles contributed most towards the variati ons: Female authors were more likely to author clinical and faith-praxis in tegration articles, and male authors were more likely to author interdiscip linary integration articles. Implications are explored regarding the benefi ts of including feminine thought as an integral partner in the task of inte gration and spiritual formation.