ABSTRACT
It seems that many scholars have been clerics or have had clerical forbears. Hans Mol lived an integrated life combining being an active pastor and a productive sociologist. Some have seen these roles as incommensurable, and others have found them mutually reinforcing. There remains space within the sociology of professions for a study of the ways these professional orientations are managed. Below, I provide my own brief look at this phenomenon, beginning with insights from Hans Mol garnered from a recent interview with him and moving on to some reflections from my own experience in order to provide a window on the problems and possibilities of combining pastoral/priestly and academic sociology roles.
