Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life provides a sociological and historical analysis of gender, family, and work among evangelical Protestants. In this innovative study, Sally Gallagher traces two lines of gender ideals—one of husbands’ authority and leadership, the other of mutuality and partnership in marriage—from the Puritans to the Promise Keepers into the lives of ordinary evangelicals today. Rather than simply reacting against or accommodating themselves to “secular society,” Gallagher argues that both traditional and egalitarian evangelicals draw on longstanding beliefs about gender, human nature, and the person of God.…mehr
Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life provides a sociological and historical analysis of gender, family, and work among evangelical Protestants. In this innovative study, Sally Gallagher traces two lines of gender ideals—one of husbands’ authority and leadership, the other of mutuality and partnership in marriage—from the Puritans to the Promise Keepers into the lives of ordinary evangelicals today. Rather than simply reacting against or accommodating themselves to “secular society,” Gallagher argues that both traditional and egalitarian evangelicals draw on longstanding beliefs about gender, human nature, and the person of God.
Sally Gallagher is an associate professor of sociology at Oregon State University and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for fieldwork on families in Damascus, Syria.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part I Evangelical Ideals - Evangelical Family Values in Social Discourse A History of Mutuality and Gender Hierarchy Twentieth-Century Evangelical Ideals Part II Symbolic Traditionalism and Pragmatic Egalitarianism Faith and Family - Spiritual Leadership and Decision Making Dividing the Labor of Parenting and Housework Employment and the Needs of Children Part III Understanding Evangelical Identity, Gender, and Family - What Would Be Lost If Evangelicals Abandoned the Notion of Husbands' Headship? History, Community, and Identity: Tools and Truths in the Evangelical Tool Kit Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Tables Appendix C: Excursus into Exegesis: Essentialist and Biblical Feminist Interpretations of Key Biblical Texts Notes Bibliography Index
Preface Part I Evangelical Ideals - Evangelical Family Values in Social Discourse A History of Mutuality and Gender Hierarchy Twentieth-Century Evangelical Ideals Part II Symbolic Traditionalism and Pragmatic Egalitarianism Faith and Family - Spiritual Leadership and Decision Making Dividing the Labor of Parenting and Housework Employment and the Needs of Children Part III Understanding Evangelical Identity, Gender, and Family - What Would Be Lost If Evangelicals Abandoned the Notion of Husbands' Headship? History, Community, and Identity: Tools and Truths in the Evangelical Tool Kit Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Tables Appendix C: Excursus into Exegesis: Essentialist and Biblical Feminist Interpretations of Key Biblical Texts Notes Bibliography Index
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