headship
Top authority role
Headship is the position or status of being head—the leader, chief, or person in charge.
It appears most often in institutional contexts: the headship of a school, a department, a committee.
In religious discourse, particularly among conservative Christians, headship refers to male authority within marriage or the church: The pastor preached on the husband's headship in the family.
Power to enforce obedience
- directorOne who leads
- principalChief school administrator
- superintendentChief administrative official
- administrationOrganizational oversight and control
management · governance · chief · leader · command · supervision · oversight · stewardship
Single-person sitting furniture
- deanSenior academic administrator
- provostSenior academic administrator
- rectorParish clergy chief
- chancellorSenior administrative official
directorship · principalship · chief executive · organizational · academic · school · faculty · office
Diocesan clergy head
- pastorChristian congregation leader
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- dioceseBishop's territorial jurisdiction
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
parish · vicar · ministry · ordination · apostolic · primacy · spiritual authority · elder
Male head of family
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- fatherMale parent
- husbandMarried man's role
- providerOne who furnishes things
breadwinner · domestic · parental · traditional · submission · marriage · biblical · coverture
authority
Power to enforce obedience
- directorOne who leads
- principalChief school administrator
- superintendentChief administrative official
administration · management · governance · chief · leader · command · supervision · oversight · stewardship · control
chair
Single-person sitting furniture
chancellor · directorship · principalship · chief executive · organizational · academic · school · faculty · office · term
bishop
Diocesan clergy head
- pastorChristian congregation leader
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- dioceseBishop's territorial jurisdiction
congregation · parish · vicar · ministry · ordination · apostolic · primacy · spiritual authority · elder · deacon
patriarch
Male head of family
provider · breadwinner · domestic · parental · traditional · submission · marriage · biblical · coverture · family structure
- leadershipleadership styles, leader, leadership skills, boss, leading
- patriarchymale dominance, male supremacy, pater familias, patria potestas, male privilege
- Pauline theologyPaul, Romans, faith alone, Galatians, justification
- Biblical Marriagemarriage covenant, bride, husband and wife, bridegroom, groom
- Pauline epistlesRomans, Galatians, Ephesians, Corinthians, Philippians
- sacred sexualitysacred union, sacred marriage, tantric sex, tantra, fertility rites
headshipsubordination
Lower position in hierarchy
subservience · followership · inferiority · subjection · ranks
headshipfollowership
State of being led
discipleship · submission · deference · compliance · obedience
headshipsubmission
Yielding to another's will
dependence · powerlessness · subjugation · obedience · deference
head, heads, headline, header, headway, headstone, headlong, behead, headmaster