Rise Up, O Men of God: The Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers

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Mercer University Press, 2002 - 312 Seiten
"L. Dean Allen analyzes both groups' constructions of masculinity and social ethics in relation to the family, the church, and a prominent social issue. Evangelical Christian leaders designed both organizations in response to their alarm at men's absence from evangelical churches, and they sought to increase men's participation in churches and to improve society as a whole by their efforts. Each group faced important social changes during its era such as new economic realities, women's activities, and perceived moral crises. Despite their similarities as groups for evangelical Christian men only, MRFM and PK developed contrasting constructions of masculinity and divergent social ethical calls for action."--BOOK JACKET.

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The Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers
1
Social Context of the Men and Religion Forward Movement
13
Social Ethics of the Men and Religion Forward Movement Ethics and Morality
91
Social Context of Promise Keepers
130
Construction of Gender in Promise Keepers
194
Social Ethics of Promise Keepers Promise Keepers and Church
226
Evangelical Social Ethics in TwentiethCentury America
256
Bibliography
285
Index
307
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Seite 2 - A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help him keep his promises.
Seite 3 - Betty A. DeBerg, Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990). 30. Linda Gordon, "Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States," in Cleo's Consciousness Raised, ed.
Seite 13 - Samuel P. Hays, The Response to Industrialism, 18851914 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957); Samuel Haber, Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era, 1890—1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964); Roben H.
Seite 15 - Those of us who passed through the last great industrial depression will never forget the procession of men out of work, out of clothes, out of shoes, and out of hope. They wore down our threshold, and they wore away our hearts. This is the stake of the churches in modern poverty. They are buried at times under a stream of human wreckage. They are turned aside constantly from their more spiritual functions to "serve tables.

Autoren-Profil (2002)

L. Dean Allen received a Ph.D. at Boston University. He is Associate Dean for Academic Programs and assistant professor of ethics at Andover Newton Theological School.

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