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With its focus on biblical values and traditionally low emphasis on profanity, sex, or violence, Christian fiction (CF) has long been popular with a certain readership, mostly white, female, and coming from an evangelical Protestant background. \u201cI\u2019m not sure I\u2019d describe all of our readers as white women of child-bearing years or [suffering from] empty-nest syndrome,\u201d says Harvest House publicist Aaron Dillon. \u201cBut our core demographic does seem to be middle-aged mothers, primarily white. We also have a large contingent of readers who homeschool their children.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Christina Boys, editor for Hachette Book Group\u2019s FaithWords and Center Street imprints, believes the CF audience to be much more diverse than the conservative stereotype held by the secular mainstream. \u201cThe core readers are said to be women in their 40s who like novels set in the United States. But there are CF readers who do not fit into this demographic, and there are women in their 40s who like to read about a variety of characters and circumstances different from their own.\u201d
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With its focus on biblical values and traditionally low emphasis on profanity, sex, or violence, Christian fiction (CF) has long been popular with a certain readership, mostly white, female, and coming from an evangelical Protestant background. \u201cI\u2019m not sure I\u2019d describe all of our readers as white women of child-bearing years or [suffering from] empty-nest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nGenre Spotlight | Christian Fiction: A Born-Again Genre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With its focus on biblical values and traditionally low emphasis on profanity, sex, or violence, Christian fiction (CF) has long been popular with a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/genre-spotlight-christian-fiction-a-born-again-genre.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Genre Spotlight | Christian Fiction: A Born-Again Genre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With its focus on biblical values and traditionally low emphasis on profanity, sex, or violence, Christian fiction (CF) has long been popular with a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/02\/genre-spotlight-christian-fiction-a-born-again-genre.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-02-14T14:09:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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