Anna Strhan

The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Evangelicalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork carried out in three contrasting evangelical churches in the UK, Anna Strhan reveals how attending to the significance of children within evangelicalism deepens understanding of evangelicals' everyday hopes, fears and concerns, not only for children, but for wider British society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198789611
• ISBN-10: 0198789610
• Artikelnr.: 56870942

Autorenporträt

Anna Strhan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (Oxford University Press, 2015), shortlisted for the BBC/BSA Ethnography Award 2016, and Levinas, Subjectivity, Education (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and co-editor of Religion and the Global City (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Agency of Children and the Study of Religion
2: Learning a Form of Life
3: Parenthood: Anxiety, Authority, and Agency
4: Building an Academy
5: School Visitors
6: Marking Times and Transitions
7: Living with Mess
Conclusion
Bibliography