Remaking the Godly Marriage

Gender Negotiation in Evangelical Families

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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While religious leaders often have enormous influence over their members’ beliefs and how they translate their beliefs into action in everyday life, the individual family remains the place where religious values are practiced through and ultimately transferred to the next generation. As such, the family is an extremely important, though frequently overlooked, topic of study for sociologists of religion.In Remaking the Godly Marriage, John Bartkowski studies evangelical Protestants and their views on marriage and gender relations and how they are lived within individual families. The author compares elite evangelical prescriptions for godly family living with the day-to-day practices in conservative Protestant households. He asks: How serious are the debates over gender and the family that are manifested within contemporary evangelicalism? What are the values that underlie this debate? Have these internecine disputes been altered by the emergence of new evangelical movements such as biblical feminism and the Promise Keepers? And given the fact that leading evangelicals advance competing visions of godly family life, how do conservative religious spouses make sense of their own family relationships and gender identities?Through in-depth interviews with evangelical married couples and an exhaustive study of evangelical family advice manuals, Bartkowski explores the disputes and ambivalence concerning traditional gender roles and patriarchal models of family life, which derive from the tension between evangelical Protestantism as a religious subculture and the broader American secular culture in which it is embedded. Bartkowski reveals how evangelical men and women jointly negotiate gender roles within their families and selectively appropriate values of the larger culture even as they attempt to cope with the conflicting messages of their own faith.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt369 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor210
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9780813529196

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PART 1 Introduction and background.1 Evangelical family life and America's culture wars2 Evangelical families in historical perspectivePART 2 Contemporary conservative Protestant gender discourse : elite evangelical prescriptions for family life3 Discourses of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality : evangelical debates over gender difference4 Wifely submission or mutual submission? : evangelical discourses of family power5 Separate spheres or domestic task sharing? : evangelical debates over financial provision, housework, and child carePART 3 Tandem gender : negotiation among evangelical spouses6 Vive la difference? : gender difference in family ministry and domestic life7 Negotiating patriarchy : submission, subversion, and family power8 Labor of love? : financial provision, housework, and child careCONCLUSION Refashioning evangelical families for the twenty-first century : godly marriages in a millennial age

Bartkowski draws from a treasure trove of stories to make evangelists understand able and alive. Like everyone else, they struggle to to create workable ways of being men, women, and families in a changing world. - Nancy Tatom Ammerman (author of Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World) Bartkowski very nicely mixes methods - combining an analysis of evangelical advice manuals, an ethnography of an evangelical congregation, and in-depth interviews with married evangelical couples - to produce an important contribution to our growing understanding of the complexity, ambivalence, and diversity within American evangelicalism. - Christian Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Using a deft combination of historical material, textual analysis, interviews and ethnographic observation, Bartkowski unpacks the multiple discourses about, and practices within, marriage and families among evangelical Protestants. - Rhys H. Williams (editor of Promise Keepers and the New Masculinity: Private Lives and Public Morality)