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Valuing Families or Family Values? The Citizen Family in the Religious and Cultural Imagination

Trimble, Rita J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392798750

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2008, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
This thesis examines how family images are used by American Protestant organizations in religio-political causes like advocating for or against gay rights. Specifically, it looks at family images that appear in a Focus on the Family DVD, in four Protestant denominations’ media campaigns, and in the worship services of a particular United Methodist congregation. Family ideology, which is built into family images and into the American viewer’s imagination, taps into inner “logics” of which we are usually unaware—assumptions about gender, class, race, sexuality, and what a “good” family is supposed to look like. The paper looks at how taken-for-granted notions have historically limited benefits of legal, economic, and cultural citizenship, and argues for policies and laws that treat various household arrangements equally. Ultimately, it argues for seeing, alongside conventional activism for social change, the potential for traditional Protestant worship practices to help redefine the family in the social imaginary.
Tanya Erzen (Advisor)
Brian Rotman (Committee Member)
Ruby Tapia (Committee Member)
119 p.
Comparative

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  • Trimble, R. J. (2008). Valuing Families or Family Values? The Citizen Family in the Religious and Cultural Imagination [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392798750

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Trimble, Rita. Valuing Families or Family Values? The Citizen Family in the Religious and Cultural Imagination. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392798750.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Trimble, Rita. "Valuing Families or Family Values? The Citizen Family in the Religious and Cultural Imagination." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392798750

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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