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Growing God's Family - The Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism (Paperback)
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Growing God's Family - The Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism (Paperback)
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Illustrates the hidden challenges embedded within the evangelical
adoption movement. For over a decade, prominent leaders and
organizations among American Evangelicals have spent a substantial
amount of time and money in an effort to address what they believe
to be the "Orphan Crisis" of the United States. Yet, despite an
expansive commitment of resources, there is no reliable evidence
that these efforts have been successful. Adoptions are declining
across the board, and both foster parenting and foster-adoptions
remain steady. Why have evangelical mobilization efforts been so
ineffective? To answer this question, Samuel L. Perry draws on
interviews with over 220 movement leaders and grassroots families,
as well as national data on adoption and fostering, to show that
the problem goes beyond orphan care. Perry argues that evangelical
social engagement is fundamentally self-limiting and difficult to
sustain because their subcultural commitments lock them into an
approach that does not work on a practical level. Growing God's
Family ultimately reveals this peculiar irony within American
evangelicalism by exposing how certain aspects of the evangelical
subculture may stimulate activism to address social problems, even
while these same subcultural characteristics undermine their own
strategic effectiveness. It provides the most recent analysis of
dominant elements within the evangelical subculture and how that
subculture shapes the engagement strategies of evangelicals as a
group.
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