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Denounced by some as a dangerous cult and lauded by others as a miraculous faith community, the International Churches of Christ was a conservative evangelical Christian movement that grew rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s. Among its followers, promises to heal family relationships were central to the group's appeal. Members credit the church for helping them develop so-called "awesome families"-successful marriages and satisfying relationships with children, family of origin, and new church "brothers and sisters." The church engaged an elaborate array of services, including round-the-clock counseling, childcare, and Christian dating networks-all of which were said to lead to fulfilling relationships and exciting sex lives. Before the unified movement's demise in 2003-2004, the lure of blissful family-life led more than 100,000 individuals worldwide to be baptized into the church. In Awesome Families, Kathleen Jenkins draws on four years of ethnographic research to explain how and why so many individuals-primarily from middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds-were attracted to this religious group that was founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative relationships, and therapeutic ideals. Weaving classical and contemporary social theory, she argues that members were commonly attracted to the structure and practice of family relationships advocated by the church, especially in the context of contemporary society where gender roles and family responsibilities are often ambiguous. Tracing the rise and fall of this fast-growing religious movement, this timely study adds to our understanding of modern society and offers insight to the difficulties that revivalist movements have in sustaining growth.

Christian sociology --- International Churches of Christ. --- Sociology --- Disciple (Christianity) --- Evangelicalism --- Family (biology) --- God --- the International Churches of Christ --- healing relationships --- therapeutic religious movements --- alternative religions --- conservative Evangelical Christian movement --- the Kingdom of God

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Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society.

Families --- Democracy. --- Political aspects. --- Self-government --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Philosophy --- Disability --- Ethics --- Family (biology) --- Liberalism --- Political philosophy

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In this book the family life of the lower-class Creole population of 1 Paramaribo will be discussed. This group, which will henceforward be referred to as "the lower-class Creoles", possesses a "West Indian" family system, implying that the latter display all the main characteristics of the Caribbean Afro-American family. The Creoles constitute a numerically important ethnic segment of the society of Surinam. This society is composed of different ethnic groups, comprising, besides a handful of Amerindians, an "immigrant population" including people from many different parts of the world. It is made up of Creoles, Indians (or Hindustanis, as they are called in Surinam), Indonesians (Javanese), Chinese, Europeans, Lebanese and Bush Negroes, the latter of whom still live predominantly in tribes. The Creoles are the descendants of those Negro slaves brought to Surinam from Africa who did not escape from bondage by running away from the plantations into the Bush, as their brothers the Bush Negroes did. The circumstances under which the bulk of the slaves lived were appalling. Nor were they - or are they still in p ~ at present - much better for their descendants the lower-class Creoles.

Families --- Families. --- Population. --- Social conditions. --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Demography --- Malthusianism --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- History. --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Suriname --- Suriname. --- Dutch Guiana --- Nederlandisch Guyana --- Nederlandsch Guyana --- Netherland Guiana --- Netherlands Guiana --- Orandaryō Giana --- Ranryō Giana --- Republic of Suriname --- Republiek Suriname --- Surinaam --- Surinam --- Sūrīnāma --- Surinamu --- Guiana, Dutch --- Guiana, Netherlands --- スリナム --- オランダ領ギアナ --- 蘭領ギアナ --- indonesia --- Concubinage --- Creole language --- Family (biology) --- Paramaribo --- Working class

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Most members of the Stolen Generations had white fathers or grandfathers. Who were these white men? This book analyses the stories of white fathers, men who were positioned as key players in the plans to assimilate Aboriginal people by "breeding out the colour" . The policy was an cruel failure. It conflated skin colour with culture and assumed that Aboriginal women and their children would acquiesce to produce "future whites". It also assumed that white men would comply as ready appendages, administering "whiteness" through marriage or white sperm. This book attempts to put textual flesh on the bodies of these white fathers, and in doing so, builds on and complicates the view of white fathers in this history, and the histories of whiteness to which they are bio-politically related.

Stolen generations (Australia) --- Race discrimination --- Aboriginal Australians --- Racially mixed people --- Whites --- History. --- Mixed descent --- History --- Race identity --- White people --- White persons --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Aboriginals, Australian --- Aborigines, Australian --- Australian aboriginal people --- Australian aboriginals --- Australian aborigines --- Australians, Aboriginal --- Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians) --- Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians) --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Children, Aboriginal Australian --- Forced removal of Aboriginal Australian children --- Generations, Stolen (Australia) --- Stolen generation (Australia) --- Stolen generations --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Ethnic groups --- Miscegenation --- Indigenous peoples --- Discrimination --- Government relations --- australian aborigines --- aborigines --- aboriginal people --- indigenous people --- stolen generations --- Family (biology) --- White Fathers