The Divine Institution : : White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family / / Sophie Bjork-James.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Bjork-James, Sophie,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (197 p.) :; 1 b-w image
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. Family Values and Racial Politics --; 2. The Divine Institution and the Segregated Church --; 3. Reading the Bible with James Dobson: The Family and Christian Nationalism --; 4. Same-Sex Attraction and the Limits of God’s Love --; 5. Paternal Politics --; 6. Losing (and Remaking) My Religion --; 7. Conclusion: The Future of White Evangelicalism --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978824492; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754193; 9783110753974; 9783110739138
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978824492
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sophie Bjork-James.

The Divine Institution provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corollary to Religious Right politics. This tradition inherently enforces racial inequality in that it draws moral, religious, and political attention away from problems of racial and economic structural oppression, explaining all social problems as a failure of the individual to achieve the strong gender and sexual identities that ground the nuclear family. The consequences of this theology are both personal suffering for individuals who cannot measure up to prescribed gender and sexual roles, and political support for conservative government policies. Exposure to experiences that undermine the idea that an emphasis on the family is the solution to all social problems is causing a younger generation of white evangelicals to shift away from this narrow theological emphasis and toward a more social justice-oriented theology. The material and political effects of this shift remain to be seen.