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- Title: God, Man, Then ... Wait, How Does That Go? Emerging Gender Identities in 20-Something Evangelicals.
- Author : Masculinities and Spirituality Journal of Men
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 232 KB
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In the past 20 years, gender scholars have produced a significant literature detailing the gendered identities of Evangelical Christians. According to John Bartkowski (2007), Evangelicals have been a hot topic of study in the past two decades because they are perceived to be "the arbiters of patriarchy" (p. 154). In particular, this scholarship has been most concerned with the notion of "headship," a term used in many Evangelical circles to describe the relationship between God, men, women and children. In short, "headship" typically assumes a patriarchal chain of being in which children should be submissive to their parents, wives submissive to their husbands (and to God), and husbands submissive to God (the Father). A good portion of this scholarship has analyzed Promise Keepers (Messner, 1997; Bartkowski, 2007, 2004; Claussen, 1999, 2000), its female counterparts, Women of Faith, Chosen Women and Women's Aglow Fellowship (Erzen, 2000; Griffith, 1997), and Christian media products, like Wild at Heart (1) (Gallagher & Wood, 2005). Much of this literature has focused on official texts and rhetoric, but a growing body of literature also analyzes "men and women in the pews" who identify with these movements and texts, yet negotiate them into everyday life in a variety of ways (Bartkowski, 2004, 2001; Gallagher & Wood, 2005; Griffith, 1997).