Beschreibung:
SOPHIE BJORK-JAMES is an assistant professor in the anthropology department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the coeditor of Beyond Populism: Angry Politics and the Twilight of Neoliberalism.
The Divine Institution provides an ethnographic account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corollary to Religious Right politics.
Table of Contents Chapter 1: From Rules to a Relationship: The Transformation of US Christianity Chapter 2: The Divine Institution and the Segregated Church Chapter 3: Evangelicalism and a Strict Father Theology Chapter 4: Same-Sex Attraction and the Limits of God’s Love Chapter 5: Paternal Politics Chapter 6: Losing (and Remaking) My Religion: The Transformation of White Evangelicalism from Within Conclusion: White Evangelicalism in Trump’s America