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Conversions

Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America [Paperback]

by Craig E. Harline

    • Author

      Craig E. Harline

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Yale University Press

    • Published

      March 2013

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      This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges today. Craig Harline begins with the story of young Jacob Rolandus, the son of a Dutch Reformed preacher, who converted to Catholicism in 1654 and ran away from home, causing his family to disown him. In the companion story, Michael Sunbloom, a young American, leaves his family's religion in 1973 to convert to Mormonism, similarly upsetting his distraught parents. The modern twist to Michael's story is his realization that he is gay, causing him to leave his new church, and upsetting his parents again - but this time the family reconciles. Recounting these stories in short, alternating chapters, Harline underscores the parallel aspects of the two far-flung families. Despite different outcomes and forms, their situations involve nearly identical dynamics and heart-wrenching choices. Through the author's deeply informed imagination, the experiences of a seventeenth-century European family are transformed into immediately recognizable terms.

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      • Author

        Craig E. Harline

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Yale University Press

      • Published

        March 2013

      • Weight

        432g

      • Page Count

        320

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9780300192445

      • ISBN-10

        0300192444

      • Eden Code

        4066748

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Craig E. Harline

      • ISBN: 9780300192445

      • Publisher: Yale University Press

      • Release Date: March 2013

      • Weight: 432g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 4066748


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