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Practicing What the Doctor Preached - At Home with Focus on the Family (Hardcover)
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Practicing What the Doctor Preached - At Home with Focus on the Family (Hardcover)
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James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian foundation
Focus on the Family, is well-known to the secular world as a
crusader for the Christian right. But within Christian circles he
is known primarily as a childrearing expert. Millions of American
children have been raised on his message, disseminated through
books, videos, radio programs, magazines, and other media. While
evangelical Christians have always placed great importance on
familial responsibilities, Dobson placed the family at the center
of Christian life. Only by sticking to proper family roles can we
achieve salvation. Women, for instance, only come to know God fully
by submitting to their husbands and nurturing their children. Such
uniting of family life and religion has drawn people to the
organization, just as it has forced them to wrestle with what it
meant to be a Christian wife, husband, mother, father, son, or
daughter. Adapting theories from developmental psychology that
melded parental modeling with a conservative Christian theology of
sinfulness, salvation, and a living relationship with Jesus, Dobson
created a new model for the Christian family. But what does that
model look like in real life? Drawing on interviews with mothers,
fathers, sons, and daughters, Practicing What the Doctor Preached
explores how actual families put Dobson's principles into practice.
To what extent does Focus shape the practices of its audience to
its own ends, and to what extent does Focus' understanding of its
members' practices and needs shape the organization? Susan B.
Ridgely shows that, while Dobson is known for being rigid and
dogmatic, his followers show surprising flexibility in the way they
actually use his materials. She examines Focus's listeners and
their changing needs over the organization's first thirty years, a
span that saw the organization expand from centering itself on
childrearing to entrenching itself in public debates over
sexuality, education, and national politics.
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