Anna Strhan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (Oxford University Press, 2015), shortlisted for the BBC/BSA Ethnography Award 2016, and Levinas, Subjectivity, Education (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and co-editor of Religion and the Global City (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Strhan provides a novel, child-focused perspective on evangelicals, using captivating ethnographic description in an equally scholarly and accessible narrative. This book is fun to read; it also makes you think—a lovely combination.

• Introduction 1: The Agency of Children and the Study of Religion 2: Learning a Form of Life 3: Parenthood: Anxiety, Authority, and Agency 4: Building an Academy 5: School Visitors 6: Marking Times and Transitions 7: Living with Mess Conclusion Bibliography

Anna Strhan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (Oxford University Press, 2015), shortlisted for the BBC/BSA Ethnography Award 2016, and Levinas, Subjectivity, Education (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and co-editor of Religion and the Global City (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Strhan provides a novel, child-focused perspective on evangelicals, using captivating ethnographic description in an equally scholarly and accessible narrative. This book is fun to read; it also makes you think—a lovely combination.

• Introduction 1: The Agency of Children and the Study of Religion 2: Learning a Form of Life 3: Parenthood: Anxiety, Authority, and Agency 4: Building an Academy 5: School Visitors 6: Marking Times and Transitions 7: Living with Mess Conclusion Bibliography

Anna Strhan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. She is the author of Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (Oxford University Press, 2015), shortlisted for the BBC/BSA Ethnography Award 2016, and Levinas, Subjectivity, Education (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and co-editor of Religion and the Global City (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Strhan provides a novel, child-focused perspective on evangelicals, using captivating ethnographic description in an equally scholarly and accessible narrative. This book is fun to read; it also makes you think—a lovely combination.

• Introduction 1: The Agency of Children and the Study of Religion 2: Learning a Form of Life 3: Parenthood: Anxiety, Authority, and Agency 4: Building an Academy 5: School Visitors 6: Marking Times and Transitions 7: Living with Mess Conclusion Bibliography