TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,Kathleen
TI  - Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ 
SN  - 9780813540979
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/a3d9770f-8fe4-421b-a625-5625ca3741a3
ER  -