The Divine Institution : : White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family / / 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 dr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (197 p.) :; 1 b-w image
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Table of Contents:
  • 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