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Awesome Families : The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ

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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.

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261.835 JEN a

Publisher

: ., 2005

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8135-3664-4

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261.835

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

International Churches of Christ

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Kathleen E. Jenkins.

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maya

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