
Published online:
24 May 2018
Published in print:
12 September 2017
Online ISBN:
9780226482125
Print ISBN:
9780226481937
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The Origin of Parents The Origin of Parents
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The Parent as Religious Agent The Parent as Religious Agent
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The Politics of Parenting The Politics of Parenting
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The Science of Parenting The Science of Parenting
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The Market for Parenting The Market for Parenting
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The Service of Parenting The Service of Parenting
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The Authority of Parenting The Authority of Parenting
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Chapter
7 Religion and the Authority in American Parenting
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Pages
141–163
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Published:September 2017
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OXFORD ACADEMIC STYLE
Lofton, Kathryn, 'Religion and the Authority in American Parenting', Consuming Religion (Chicago, IL , 2017; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 24 May 2018), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226482125.003.0008, accessed 9 May 2025.
CHICAGO STYLE
Lofton, Kathryn. "Religion and the Authority in American Parenting." In Consuming Religion University of Chicago Press, 2017. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226482125.003.0008.
Abstract
This chapter reimagines the history of parenting as a subject for the study of religion. Through a schematic historical description of parenting in the United States, it tracks the expanded responsibilities and increased social expectations for parents in the formation of child identity. Focusing on the concept of parental authority, it argues that the relationship of authority between parent and child is an important document of religious history in a secular age, and encourages future scholars to explore parenting habits, prescriptions, and admonitions as an archive for religious studies.
Keywords:
parenting, lactivism, authority, democracy, parenting manuals, G. Stanley Hall, Benjamin Spock, service economy, Michel Foucault, scientia parentis
Subject
Religious Studies
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