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"Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family's Advice to American Evangelicals by Hilde Løvdal Stephens is an insightful history and analysis of James Dobson's rise to fame, effect on American evangelical culture, and subsequent fall from relevance. Stephens scours through Dobson's books, articles, and other materials published by Focus on the Family in order to explore how evangelicals defined and defended the traditional family as an ideal and as a symbol in an ever-changing world"--
Dobson, James C., --- Dobson, James, --- Families --- Evangelicalism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History. --- Focus on the Family (Organization)
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The Family International (formerly the Children of God) emerged from the radical fringe of the Jesus People Movement in the late 1960s to establish a new religious movement with communities in ninety countries. Characterized from its early days by controversy due to its unconventional version of Christianity, countercultural practices, and high level of tension with society, the Family International created a communal society that endured for four decades. The movement's reinvention in 2010 as an online community offers insights into the dynamic nature of new religious movements, as they strategically adapt to evolving social contexts and emergent issues, and the negotiations of belief and identity this may entail. The Family International's transformation from a radical communal movement to a deradicalized virtual community highlights the novel challenges alternative religions may face in entering the mainstream and attaining legitimacy within the increasingly globalized context of online information dissemination in virtual spaces.
Organizational change. --- Online social networks --- Religious aspects. --- Family International (Organization) --- Change, Organizational --- Organization development --- Organizational development --- Organizational innovation --- Management --- Organization --- Manpower planning --- Family (Organization)
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James Dobson is well-known to the secular world as a crusader for the Christian right. But within Christian circles he is known primarily as a childrearing expert; millions of American children have been raised on his message.
Parenting --- Child rearing --- Families --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religious life. --- Dobson, James C., --- Focus on the Family (Organization) --- Focus on the family (Radio program)
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The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the tactic of tailoring a message to a particular audience is politically legitimate or amounts to democratic malpractice. Klemp's nuanced assessment, highlighting both democratic vices and virtues of the politi
Christians --- Communication in politics --- Deliberative democracy. --- Manipulative behavior --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Forensics (Public speaking) --- Oratory --- Behavior, Manipulative --- Manipulation (Psychology) --- Human behavior --- Discursive democracy --- Democracy --- Political communication --- Political science --- Religious adherents --- Political activity --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Political aspects --- Focus on the Family (Organization)
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Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization, religious leadership and participation, sexuality, and family ideals. Religious worldviews and gender roles interact with one another in complicated ways. This is especially true within new religions, which frequently set roles for women in ways that help the movements to define their boundaries in relation to the wider society. As new religious movements emerge, they often position themselves in opposition to dominant society and concomitantly assert alternative roles for women. But these religions are not monolithic: rather than defining gender in rigid and repressive terms, new religions sometimes offer possibilities to women that are not otherwise available. Vance traces expectations for women as the religions emerge, and transformation of possibilities and responsibilities for women as they mature. Weaving theory with examination of each movement’s origins, history, and beliefs and practices, this text contextualizes and situates ideals for women in new religions. The book offers an accessible analysis of the complex factors that influence gender ideology and its evolution in new religious movements, including the movements’ origins, charismatic leadership and routinization, theology and doctrine, and socio-historical contexts. It shows how religions shape definitions of women’s place in a way that is informed by response to social context, group boundaries, and identity. Additional Resources
Women and religion. --- Mormon women. --- Seventh-Day Adventist women. --- Wicca. --- Wica --- Neopaganism --- Witchcraft --- Christian women --- Women, Mormon --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Family International (Organization) --- Family (Organization) --- Wiccakult --- Frau. --- Neue Religion --- Frau --- Gemeinschaft der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten --- Mormonen --- Mormon Church --- Heilige der Letzten Tage --- HLT-Kirche --- Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints --- Latter Day Saints --- Église de Jésus Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours --- Church of Latter Day Saints --- Church of Christ --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- LDS Church --- Religionsgemeinschaft --- Salt Lake City, Utah --- 1830 --- -Family (Organization) --- Mormon women --- Latter Day Saint women. --- women in new religions --- Mormonism --- Seventh-day Adventism --- endtime religion --- The Family International --- sexualizing gender --- Wicca --- the Divine Feminine
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