{"product_id":"the-figure-of-the-child-in-contemporary-evangelicalism-9780198789611","title":"The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Evangelicalism","description":"What does it mean to grow up as an evangelical Christian today? What meanings does 'childhood' have for evangelical adults? How does this shape their engagements with children and with schools? And what does this mean for the everyday realities of children's lives? Based on in-depth\u003cbr\u003eethnographic 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' hopes, fears and concerns, not only for children, but for wider British society.\u003cbr\u003eDeveloping a new, relational approach to the study of children and religion, Strhan invites the reader to consider both the complexities of children's agency and how the figure of the child shapes the hopes, fears, and imaginations of adults, within and beyond evangelicalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Figure of the Child in Contemporary Evangelicalism\u003c\/em\u003e explores the lived realities of how evangelical Christians engage with children across the spaces of church, school, home, and other informal educational spaces in a de-christianizing cultural context, how children experience these forms of\u003cbr\u003eengagement, and the meanings and significance of childhood. Providing insight into different churches' contemporary cultural and moral orientations, the book reveals how conservative evangelicals experience their understanding of childhood as increasingly countercultural, while charismatic and open\u003cbr\u003eevangelicals locate their work with children as a significant means of engaging with wider secular society. Setting out an approach that explores the relations between the figure of the child, children's experiences, and how adult religious subjectivities are formed in both imagined and practical\u003cbr\u003erelationships with children, this study situates childhood as an important area of study within the sociology of religion and examines how we should approach childhood within this field, both theoretically and methodologically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Strhan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198789611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Strhan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnna Strhan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eAliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2015), shortlisted for the BBC\/BSA Ethnography Award 2016, and \u003cem\u003eLevinas, Subjectivity, Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eReligion and the Global City\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2017) and \u003cem\u003eThe Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40377897255027,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":138.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8d91536b-7dcf-4ffc-bf21-52433b1c42f6.jpg?v=1661261733","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-figure-of-the-child-in-contemporary-evangelicalism-9780198789611","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}