For Better, For Worse

The Ethics of Divorce after Marriage Equality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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For Better, For Worse discusses the shame narratives tied to divorce, rooted in Christian theologies of marriage and U.S. political landscapes of marriage rights and regulation. Using interdisciplinary methods, Natalie E. Williams investigates the current conflict between social practices that normalize divorce and religious and political rhetorical narratives that continue to shame those who divorce. Williams's work seeks to understand current attitudes and policies related to divorce and to shape Christian ethical responses that resist the use of shame, relying instead on commitments to truth-telling and a cultivation of “shamelessness” to support flourishing across a spectrum of family forms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-02
Mått161 x 230 x 17 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor140
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978701861

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
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Introduction: Why Divorce Matters Now: Origins of the U.S. “Divorce Crisis” 1. The Theo-ethical History of Marriage and the U.S. Divorce Landscape2. Shame in the Moral Frameworks of Marriage Regulation3. Fetishizing the Family: Shame in Christian Divorce Doctrines4. U.S. Divorce Policies and “Family Values” Rhetoric5. Queer Resistance and Gay Assimilation: Marriage (and Divorce) Equality6. Resisting Shame and Reimagining Family Success

Natalie E. Williams provides an important missing piece in the dynamic, fraught theo-ethical conversation on marriage. Both Christianity and the state sell divorce as a shame-inducing decision that unleashes catastrophes rather than a multi-faceted, sometimes liberating relational choice. Divorce’s negative press reinforces the hetero status quo, while queering the data reveals many creative relational options. Study this lest the advent of marriage/divorce equality lead to more of the same.