The Figure of the Child in Contemporary Evangelicalism

ISBN-13: 9780198789611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Anna Strhan

Recenzje

Through her ground-breaking, relational approach to studying children and childhood in both conservative and progressive evangelical congregations, Anna Strhan effectively challenges the assumption that children are the "next generation" of their tradition by convincingly demonstrating how children shape their communities through their engagement with adults as well as through adults' efforts to maintain their attention. In short, this book is a must read for anyone interested in the continued currency of term "evangelicalism", the role of children's agency in their communities, and in how children and childhood serve to push religious congregations to adjust to societal change.

O autorze

Anna Strhan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (Oxford University Press, 2015), shortlisted for the BBC/BSA Ethnography Award 2016, and Levinas, Subjectivity, Education (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and co-editor of Religion and the Global City (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2017).