Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by W. Bradford Wilcox
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IN 1994, Tony Evans, a black evangelical pastor from Dallas, Texas, delivered variations of the message quoted in the epigraph above to more than 200,000 men across the United States who attended stadium events sponsored by Promise Keepers (PK) that year.
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In the wake of dramatic, recent changes in American family life, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches took markedly different positions on family change. This work explains why these two traditions responded so differently to family change and then goes on to explore how the stances of evangelical and mainline Protestant churches toward marriage and parenting influenced the husbands and fathers that fill their pews.
According to W. Bradford Wilcox, the divergent family ideologies of evangelical and mainline churches do not translate into large differences in family behavior between evangelical and mainline Protestant men who are married with children. Mainline Protestant men, he contends, are "new men" who take a more egalitarian approach to the division of household labor than their conservative peers and a more involved approach to parenting than men with no religious affiliation. Evangelical Protestant men, meanwhile, are "soft patriarchs"--not as authoritarian as some would expect, and given to being more emotional and dedicated to their wives and children than both their mainline and secular counterparts. Thus, Wilcox argues that religion domesticates men in ways that make them more responsive to the aspirations and needs of their immediate families.Details
- Title Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands
- Author W. Bradford Wilcox
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 337
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-05-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226897097 / 0226897095
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.14 x 0.73 in (22.86 x 15.60 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Marriage - Religious aspects - Christianity, Family - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003016602
- Dewey Decimal Code 261.835
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Citations
- Christian Century, 01/11/2005, Page 18
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