Cultivating Christ in Cartoon
Open Access DepositedCreating Evangelical Childhood, 1970-2000
the child as corruptible by the evils of modern television
In three sections, this work elucidates three frameworks through which white evangelicals understood the nature of childhood, within and beyond the fabric of “family values” culture
and finally, the child as reflected in white evangelical consumer culture. These constructions of childhood demonstrate how white evangelicals navigated the tensions between public moral standards and individualistic values, coming to rest at a middle ground that enforced the former to guarantee the next generation would hold the latter. They promoted the white evangelical experience of childhood as the most inherently valuable, even if it meant galvanizing outrage at the expense of some credibility. I argue that as white evangelicals realized moral values in their own cultural landscape, they recreated American childhood as a distinctly evangelical experience.
the "global" child, or the child outside of American white evangelical culture
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