Explore
In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group that was founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative relationships, and therapeutic ideals. Weaving classical and contemporary social theory, she argues that members were commonly attracted to the structure and practice of family relationships advocated by the church, especially in the context of contemporary society where gender roles and family responsibilities are often ambiguous.Tracing the rise and fall of this fast-growing religious movement, this timely study adds to our understanding of modern society and offers insight to the difficulties that revivalist movements have in sustaining growth.
This work is a translation of Awesome Families.
Awesome Families is a translation of this work.
This book is included in DOAB.
Why read this book? Have your say.
You must be logged in to comment.
Rights Information
Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Downloads
This work has been downloaded 259 times via unglue.it ebook links.
- 72 - pdf (CC BY-NC-ND) at OAPEN Library.
- 118 - pdf (CC BY-NC-ND) at Unglue.it.
Keywords
- Christian sociology
- Disciple (Christianity)
- Evangelicalism
- Family
- Family (biology)
- God
- International Churches of Christ
- KUnlatched
- Religious aspects
- Religious aspects of Family
- Social Science
- Social Science / Sociology
- Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
- Sociology
Links
DOI: 10.26530/oapen_625237Editions
