LEADER 05069nam 22005295 450 001 9910480267603321 005 20210713024508.0 010 $a1-4798-2078-4 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479820788 035 $a(CKB)3710000001139512 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717763 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001804054 035 $a(OCoLC)1015278623 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65728 035 $a(DE-B1597)546891 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479820788 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001139512 100 $a20200608h20172017 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGrowing God?s Family $eThe Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism /$fSamuel L. Perry 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 0 $a1-4798-0038-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. What Evangelical Orphan Boom? --$t2. Culture Building for Change --$t3. Orphans Need Families! Just Not Those Families --$t4. So, Why Did You Adopt? --$t5. Costs Not Counted --$t6. What Will a Mature Evangelical Movement Look Like? --$tConclusion --$tAppendix A --$tAppendix B --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aIllustrates 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. 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. 606 $aEvangelicalism 606 $aOrphans$xCare 606 $aAdoption$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEvangelicalism. 615 0$aOrphans$xCare. 615 0$aAdoption$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a270.8/2 700 $aPerry$b Samuel L.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01043375 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480267603321 996 $aGrowing God?s Family$92468307 997 $aUNINA