| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- What evangelical orphan boom? -- Culture building for change -- Orphans need families! : just not those families -- So why did you adopt? -- Costs not counted -- What will a mature evangelical movement look like? -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Data and methods -- Appendix B. Interview guides. |
| Summary |
For over a decade, prominent leaders and organizations among American Evangelicals have spent a substantial amount of time and money in an effort to address what they believe to be the "Orphan Crisis" of the United States. Yet, despite an expansive commitment of resources, there is no reliable evidence that these efforts have been successful. Adoptions are declining across the board, and both foster parenting and foster-adoptions remain steady. Why have evangelical mobilization efforts been so ineffective? To answer this question, Samuel L. Perry draws on interviews with over 220 movement leaders and grassroots families, as well as national data on adoption and fostering, to show that the problem goes beyond orphan care. Perry argues that evangelical social engagement is fundamentally self-limiting and difficult to sustain because their subcultural commitments lock them into an approach that does not work on a practical level. Growing God's Family ultimately reveals this peculiar irony within American evangelicalism by exposing how certain aspects of the evangelical subculture may stimulate activism to address social problems, even while these same subcultural characteristics undermine their own strategic effectiveness. It provides the most recent analysis of dominant elements within the evangelical subculture and how that subculture shapes the engagement strategies of evangelicals as a group. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Adoption -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Adoption -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Orphans -- Care.
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Orphans -- Care. |
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Orphans. |
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Evangelicalism.
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Evangelicalism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781479800384 1479800384 (DLC) 2016047074 (OCoLC)961208086 |
| ISBN |
9781479820788 |
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1479820784 |
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9781479800384 (hardcover) |
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9781479803057 (paperback) |
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1479800384 |
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1479803057 |
| Standard No. |
40027273218 |
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