Awesome Families : The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ /
In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group that was founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative r...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "It's like free counseling all the time"
- Sacred counsel : "ambassadors for God"
- An unsinkable raft in a foreboding divorce culture
- Collective performances of healing
- In with the old and the new
- Awesome kids
- Brothers and sisters for the kingdom of God
- A kingdom that promised too much.