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Bethany
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Donna's
review of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement:
"I am a Christian who knows many families that live Patriarchy lifestyles to varying degrees, so I immediately grabbed Quiverfull when I spotted it on the library shelf (I haven't followed the movement in years, so I didn't even know this book was in ...more
I am a Christian who knows many families that live Patriarchy lifestyles to varying degrees, so I immediately grabbed Quiverfull when I spotted it on the library shelf (I haven't followed the movement in years, so I didn't even know this book was in the works.)
My first impression of Quiverfull was surprise at how unbiased Kathryn Joyce was in her writing of it. She carefully constructed a very well researched, thorough, objective report on a very disturbing off-shoot of Christianity that amounts to nothing more than a cult in my opinion - the cult being what has been formed under the Vision Forum umbrella. (I'm afraid I don't have as much self-control as Ms. Joyce does -- I am very biased!)
The first half of the book explains what the Patriarchy movement is all about and mirrors perfectly what I observed first hand in the lives of my friends and acquaintances in real life and online. There is a large amount of information Ms. Joyce conveys which makes the reading textbook-like in the beginning, but relief comes in subsequent chapters with personal stories of women and children who are living or have lived this nightmare.
I am tempted to go on a long rant about how wrong I think it is to deprive young women the freedom to choose a life other than one her parents have prescribed for her. Some of these Patriarchy parents don't even allow their daughters access to enough knowledge for them to KNOW there is any other way to live. But there I go ranting. Just be prepared to be deeply disturbed. I must have asked out loud fifty times while reading Quiverfull, "How can people live like this?"
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