Quivering families : the Quiverfull movement and evangelical theology of the family / Emily Hunter McGowin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGowin, Emily Hunter, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quiverfull movement.

Evangelicalism--United States.

Evangelicalism.

United States.

Religious fundamentalism.

Families--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Families.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 259 pages : Illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2018]

Summary:

Quivering Families is a first of its kind project that employs history, ethnography, and theology to explore the Quiverfull movement in America. Quivering Families argues that despite the apparent strangeness of their practice, Quiverfull is a thoroughly evangelical and American phenomenon. Far from offering a countercultural vision of the family, Quiverfull represents an intensification of longstanding tendencies. The movement reveals the weakness of evangelical theology of the family and underlines the need for more critical and creative approaches.

Contents:

Introduction

Conceiving Quiverfull : the movement in historical and cultural perspective

Stories from the full quiver

Motherhood in the full quiver

Children and childhood in the full quiver

The family in the full quiver

Conclusion.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Dayton, 2015 under title: As for me and my house : the theology of the family in the American Quiverfull movement.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-251) and index.

ISBN:

150642760X

9781506427607

OCLC:

1007035963