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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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Main Author: Jenkins, Kathleen E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
International Churches of Christ
International Churches of Christ.
Gebedsgenezing.
Gezinstherapie.
Godsdienstige bewegingen.
Familie
Families > Religious aspects > International Churches of Christ.
Christian sociology > International Churches of Christ.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Familles > Aspect religieux > International Churches of Christ.
Sociologie religieuse > International Churches of Christ.
Čubrilović > Familie : 19. Jh.-
Electronic books.
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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.

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