‘Every Wife has a Church in her Home’: The Family and the Church in the American ‘Quiverfull’ Movement

‘Quiverfull’ is shorthand for a religious phenomenon that emerged within the networks of the Christian homeschooling movement in America over the past forty years. Quiverfull names a subculture of evangelical Christians whose lived religion includes three central practices: prolific childbirth, home...

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Main Author: McGowin, Emily Hunter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Ecclesial practices
Year: 2017, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-157
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
NBE Anthropology
NBN Ecclesiology
NCB Personal ethics
Further subjects:B Quiverfull evangelicalism family homeschooling ethnography ecclesiology spiritual formation
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)