Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress
Title | Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Edwards Wertsch |
Publisher | Brightwell Publishing |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Children of military personnel |
ISBN | 0977603318 |
Sleep Tight Tonight
Title | Sleep Tight Tonight PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Hilton |
Publisher | Sparkhouse Family |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781506439693 |
Uri the dove says goodnight to her friends in this gentle bedtime book that will send children off to sleep with a smile and a prayer. Frolic board books playfully introduce basic faith concepts in a way that's fun and age appropriate for very small children.
Quivering Families
Title | Quivering Families PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Hunter McGowin |
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2018-05-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1506446604 |
American evangelicals are known for focusing on the family, but the Quiverfull movement intensifies that focus in a significant way. Often called "Quiverfull" due to an emphasis on filling their "quivers" with as many children as possible (Psalm 127:5), such families are distinguishable by their practices of male-only leadership, homeschooling, and prolific childbirth. Their primary aim is "multigenerational faithfulness" - ensuring their descendants maintain Christian faith for many generations. Many believe this focus will lead to the Christianization of America in the centuries to come. Quivering Families is a first of its kind project that employs history, ethnography, and theology to explore the Quiverfull movement in America. The book considers a study of the movement's origins, its major leaders and institutions, and the daily lives of its families. Quivering Families argues that despite the apparent strangeness of their practice, Quiverfull is a thoroughly evangelical and American phenomenon. Far from offering a countercultural vision of the family, Quiverfull represents an intensification of longstanding tendencies. The movement reveals the weakness of evangelical theology of the family and underlines the need for more critical and creative approaches.
Every Home a Fortress
Title | Every Home a Fortress PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Bishop |
Publisher | Culture and Politics in the Company |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781625344830 |
In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity -- the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear ephemera, Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957 to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international relations but were also a transitional moment in the social histories of the white middle class and American fatherhood. During this era, public concerns surrounding civil defense shaped private family conversations, and the fallout shelter emerged as a site at which ideas of nationhood, national security, and masculinity collided with the complex reality of trying to raise and protect a family in the nuclear age.
Little Fortress
Title | Little Fortress PDF eBook |
Author | Laisha Rosnau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Exiles |
ISBN | 9781928088998 |
Based on the true story of the Caetanis, Italian nobility driven into exile by the rise of fascism, this novel follows this once glittering family to British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. When Ofelia Caetani takes her daughter, Sveva, into seclusion after the death of the duke, they are cared for by their personal secretary, Miss Juul, who brings her own secrets to their twenty-five year retreat from the world. As the stories of these three remarkable women unfurl in unexpected and often tragic ways, Little Fortress is revealed as a graceful and intricate tale of friendship, class, trust, betrayal, and, ultimately, love.
Family
Title | Family PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Sowle Cahill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN |
IS there an authentically Christian notion of family? Cahill asserts that the usual religious agenda of restoring the traditional nuclear family is actually misinformed and misguided. Her study of the early church, John Chrysostum, Martin Luther, the Puritans, and recent Church teachings reveals an alternative Christian vision of the altruistic family, animated by Christian discipleship to stand for compassion, generosity, and justice.
The Family
Title | The Family PDF eBook |
Author | American College of Psychiatrists |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Family psychotherapy |
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