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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Kathleen E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.