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Practicing What the Doctor Preached At Home with Focus on the Family

Ridgely Susan B.
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199755073
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
567 gr
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236 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
310

Forfatter
Ridgely Susan B.

Biographical note

Susan B. Ridgely is Associate Professor of American Religions at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Her work focuses on demonstrating the importance of age as a category of analysis in religious studies, by highlighting how children shape their religious communities as well as how the interplay of generations serves as a primary means of innovation. She is the author of When I was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion (2005) and editor of Children and Religion: A Methods Handbook (2011).

Practicing What the Doctor Preached At Home with Focus on the Family

Ridgely Susan B.
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
Ridgely Susan B.
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
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Presenting nuances within the group through its discussion of adherent age in relation to the category of religion, this book is a must-read for any undergraduate, graduate, and professor studying evangelicalism in America.

Jeremee D. Nute, The University of Alabama, Religious Studies Review

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

B. W. Hamilton, CHOICE

James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian foundation Focus on the Family, is well-known to the secular world as a crusader for the Christian right. But within Christian circles he is known primarily as a childrearing expert. Millions of American children have been raised on his message, disseminated through books, videos, radio programs, magazines, and other media. While evangelical Christians have always placed great importance on familial responsibilities, Dobson placed the family at the center of Christian life. Only by sticking to proper family roles can we achieve salvation. Women, for instance, only come to know God fully by submitting to their husbands and nurturing their children. Such uniting of family life and religion has drawn people to the organization, just as it has forced them to wrestle with what it meant to be a Christian wife, husband, mother, father, son, or daughter. Adapting theories from developmental psychology that melded parental modeling with a conservative Christian theology of sinfulness, salvation, and a living relationship with Jesus, Dobson created a new model for the Christian family. But what does that model look like in real life? Drawing on interviews with mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, Practicing What the Doctor Preached explores how actual families put Dobson's principles into practice. To what extent does Focus shape the practices of its audience to its own ends, and to what extent does Focus' understanding of its members' practices and needs shape the organization? Susan B. Ridgely shows that, while Dobson is known for being rigid and dogmatic, his followers show surprising flexibility in the way they actually use his materials. She examines Focus's listeners and their changing needs over the organization's first thirty years, a span that saw the organization expand from centering itself on childrearing to entrenching itself in public debates over sexuality, education, and national politics.
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James Dobson is well-known to the secular world as a crusader for the Christian right. But within Christian circles he is known primarily as a childrearing expert; millions of American children have been raised on his message.
Les mer
Introduction: Beyond the Headlines: Focusing on Families Chapter 1: Tuning in to Focus on the Family: A History of Dobson's Message and Who Has Been Listening Chapter 2: Father, Mother, Child(ren): The Foundational Trinity Chapter 3: Preparing Children to be Husbands and Wives: Gender, Dating, and Sexuality Chapter 4: "All Your Children will be Taught by the Lord": How Families Focus on School Choice Chapter 5: Bringing the Home to the World: Families' and Focus's Politics Conclusion: Re-Tuning Focus on the Family Notes Bibliography Index
Les mer
"Presenting nuances within the group through its discussion of adherent age in relation to the category of religion, this book is a must-read for any undergraduate, graduate, and professor studying evangelicalism in America." -- Jeremee D. Nute, The University of Alabama, Religious Studies Review "Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."-B. W. Hamilton, CHOICE "There is no more universal challenge than parenting. Susan Ridgely shows how Focus on the Family offers a disciplinary touchstone for a wide range of Christian adherents seeking answers to the toughest parental quandaries. Through her thoughtful engagement with a range of informants, Ridgely decodes evangelical extremism and finds within it more flexibility and virtuosity than previously understood. After reading Practicing What the Doctor Preached, there can be no doubt: parenting is the lived religion of political life." --Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Yale University "Since the 1970s, Focus on the Family has delivered a uniform message for promoting 'family values.' But do people really follow it? Susan B. Ridgely's smart and engaging book answers that question. Through interviews and a comprehensive examination of its literature, Ridgely follows the negotiations between prescription and practice as evangelical parents embrace the rhetoric of 'family values.' An important and lively study that is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary American evangelicalism." --Amy DeRogatis, author of Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism "In this deeply researched and clearly written study, Ridgely offers an empathetic analysis of one of the most influential-and controversial-conservative religious movements of the past half-century. Challenging popular stereotypes of a monolithic top-down organization, Ridgely shows a significant gap between Dobson's authoritarian pronouncements and the common sense ways in which his followers actually implemented them. She also shows how the movement changed over time, varied on different issues, and splintered between convert and cradle evangelicals. It is a singularly important contribution to the burgeoning academic literature on religion and culture in contemporary America." --Grant Wacker, author of America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Les mer
Selling point: Uses interviews and oral histories to examine how families take Focus on the Family's official prescriptions and adapt them for their daily lives Selling point: Provides an inside look into the deeply held values and hopes of Focus on the Family's members Selling point: Investigates effect of Focus on the Family's conservative ideologies of Christian childrearing and marriage material in informing members' relationships and choices in the home, the school, the workplace, and the political sphere Selling point: Demonstrates how Focus on the Family has helped redefine the American Christian family
Les mer
Susan B. Ridgely is Associate Professor of American Religions at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work focuses on demonstrating the importance of age as a category of analysis in religious studies, by highlighting how children shape their religious communities as well as how the interplay of generations serves as a primary means of innovation. She is the author of When I was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion (2005) and editor of Children and Religion: A Methods Handbook (2011).
Les mer
Selling point: Uses interviews and oral histories to examine how families take Focus on the Family's official prescriptions and adapt them for their daily lives Selling point: Provides an inside look into the deeply held values and hopes of Focus on the Family's members Selling point: Investigates effect of Focus on the Family's conservative ideologies of Christian childrearing and marriage material in informing members' relationships and choices in the home, the school, the workplace, and the political sphere Selling point: Demonstrates how Focus on the Family has helped redefine the American Christian family
Les mer

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Presenting nuances within the group through its discussion of adherent age in relation to the category of religion, this book is a must-read for any undergraduate, graduate, and professor studying evangelicalism in America.

Jeremee D. Nute, The University of Alabama, Religious Studies Review

Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

B. W. Hamilton, CHOICE

James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian foundation Focus on the Family, is well-known to the secular world as a crusader for the Christian right. But within Christian circles he is known primarily as a childrearing expert. Millions of American children have been raised on his message, disseminated through books, videos, radio programs, magazines, and other media. While evangelical Christians have always placed great importance on familial responsibilities, Dobson placed the family at the center of Christian life. Only by sticking to proper family roles can we achieve salvation. Women, for instance, only come to know God fully by submitting to their husbands and nurturing their children. Such uniting of family life and religion has drawn people to the organization, just as it has forced them to wrestle with what it meant to be a Christian wife, husband, mother, father, son, or daughter. Adapting theories from developmental psychology that melded parental modeling with a conservative Christian theology of sinfulness, salvation, and a living relationship with Jesus, Dobson created a new model for the Christian family. But what does that model look like in real life? Drawing on interviews with mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, Practicing What the Doctor Preached explores how actual families put Dobson's principles into practice. To what extent does Focus shape the practices of its audience to its own ends, and to what extent does Focus' understanding of its members' practices and needs shape the organization? Susan B. Ridgely shows that, while Dobson is known for being rigid and dogmatic, his followers show surprising flexibility in the way they actually use his materials. She examines Focus's listeners and their changing needs over the organization's first thirty years, a span that saw the organization expand from centering itself on childrearing to entrenching itself in public debates over sexuality, education, and national politics.
Les mer
James Dobson is well-known to the secular world as a crusader for the Christian right. But within Christian circles he is known primarily as a childrearing expert; millions of American children have been raised on his message.
Les mer
Introduction: Beyond the Headlines: Focusing on Families Chapter 1: Tuning in to Focus on the Family: A History of Dobson's Message and Who Has Been Listening Chapter 2: Father, Mother, Child(ren): The Foundational Trinity Chapter 3: Preparing Children to be Husbands and Wives: Gender, Dating, and Sexuality Chapter 4: "All Your Children will be Taught by the Lord": How Families Focus on School Choice Chapter 5: Bringing the Home to the World: Families' and Focus's Politics Conclusion: Re-Tuning Focus on the Family Notes Bibliography Index
Les mer
"Presenting nuances within the group through its discussion of adherent age in relation to the category of religion, this book is a must-read for any undergraduate, graduate, and professor studying evangelicalism in America." -- Jeremee D. Nute, The University of Alabama, Religious Studies Review "Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."-B. W. Hamilton, CHOICE "There is no more universal challenge than parenting. Susan Ridgely shows how Focus on the Family offers a disciplinary touchstone for a wide range of Christian adherents seeking answers to the toughest parental quandaries. Through her thoughtful engagement with a range of informants, Ridgely decodes evangelical extremism and finds within it more flexibility and virtuosity than previously understood. After reading Practicing What the Doctor Preached, there can be no doubt: parenting is the lived religion of political life." --Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Yale University "Since the 1970s, Focus on the Family has delivered a uniform message for promoting 'family values.' But do people really follow it? Susan B. Ridgely's smart and engaging book answers that question. Through interviews and a comprehensive examination of its literature, Ridgely follows the negotiations between prescription and practice as evangelical parents embrace the rhetoric of 'family values.' An important and lively study that is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary American evangelicalism." --Amy DeRogatis, author of Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism "In this deeply researched and clearly written study, Ridgely offers an empathetic analysis of one of the most influential-and controversial-conservative religious movements of the past half-century. Challenging popular stereotypes of a monolithic top-down organization, Ridgely shows a significant gap between Dobson's authoritarian pronouncements and the common sense ways in which his followers actually implemented them. She also shows how the movement changed over time, varied on different issues, and splintered between convert and cradle evangelicals. It is a singularly important contribution to the burgeoning academic literature on religion and culture in contemporary America." --Grant Wacker, author of America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Les mer
Selling point: Uses interviews and oral histories to examine how families take Focus on the Family's official prescriptions and adapt them for their daily lives Selling point: Provides an inside look into the deeply held values and hopes of Focus on the Family's members Selling point: Investigates effect of Focus on the Family's conservative ideologies of Christian childrearing and marriage material in informing members' relationships and choices in the home, the school, the workplace, and the political sphere Selling point: Demonstrates how Focus on the Family has helped redefine the American Christian family
Les mer
Susan B. Ridgely is Associate Professor of American Religions at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work focuses on demonstrating the importance of age as a category of analysis in religious studies, by highlighting how children shape their religious communities as well as how the interplay of generations serves as a primary means of innovation. She is the author of When I was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion (2005) and editor of Children and Religion: A Methods Handbook (2011).
Les mer
Selling point: Uses interviews and oral histories to examine how families take Focus on the Family's official prescriptions and adapt them for their daily lives Selling point: Provides an inside look into the deeply held values and hopes of Focus on the Family's members Selling point: Investigates effect of Focus on the Family's conservative ideologies of Christian childrearing and marriage material in informing members' relationships and choices in the home, the school, the workplace, and the political sphere Selling point: Demonstrates how Focus on the Family has helped redefine the American Christian family
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199755073
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
567 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
310

Forfatter
Ridgely Susan B.

Biographical note

Susan B. Ridgely is Associate Professor of American Religions at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Her work focuses on demonstrating the importance of age as a category of analysis in religious studies, by highlighting how children shape their religious communities as well as how the interplay of generations serves as a primary means of innovation. She is the author of When I was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion (2005) and editor of Children and Religion: A Methods Handbook (2011).

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