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Conversions - Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (Paperback)
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Conversions - Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Narrative History
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The experiences of two families-one in seventeenth-century Holland,
the other in America today-and how they coped when a family member
changed religions This powerful and innovative work by a gifted
cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on
family relationships, showing how the challenges of the Reformation
can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive situations
today. Craig Harline begins with the story of young Jacob Rolandus,
the son of a Dutch Reformed preacher, who converted to Catholicism
in 1654 and ran away from home, causing his family to disown him.
In the companion story, Michael Sunbloom, a young American, leaves
his family's religion in 1973 to convert to Mormonism, similarly
upsetting his distraught parents. The modern twist to Michael's
story is his realization that he is gay, causing him to leave his
new church, and upsetting his parents again-but this time the
family reconciles. Recounting these stories in short, alternating
chapters, Harline underscores the parallel aspects of the two
far-flung families. Despite different outcomes and forms, their
situations involve nearly identical dynamics and heart-wrenching
choices. Through the author's deeply informed imagination, the
experiences of a seventeenth-century European family are
transformed into immediately recognizable terms.
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