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Ronald A. Simkins, Gail S. Risch - Religion and the Family, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Religion and the Family

Av Ronald A. Simkins, Gail S. Risch

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In this volume, the complex relationships between religion and the family is explored by fourteen scholars across a range of disciplines. Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family life and religious beliefs and practice in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, past and present, the essays address key questions: How has religion shaped conceptions of and life in the family? How have experiences of the family shaped religion? Drawing on Biblical studies, theology, spirituality, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and law, the contributors offer a new, more complex, picture and historically nuanced of this symbiotic relationship.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2008-09-15
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 440 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 285
  • Förlag: Creighton University,U.S.
  • ISBN: 9781881871491
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RONALD A. SIMKINS is Professor of Theology and Director of the Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University.He is the editor of numerous books and the general editor of the Journal of Religion & Society.GAIL S. RISCH is a lecturer in theology and a researcher in the Center for Marriage and Family at Creighton University.

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Family has been and continues to be a surprisingly evolving reality,and each permutation carries with it a new constellation of religiousideas and practices. Whether tradition refers to several hundredyears or to merely two or three generations, it is always, to varyingdegrees, adapted and transformed as it is passed on. Religion wasenmeshed in the family so that as definitions of the family and marriageshifted over time, religion was shaped accordingly. But theconverse is also true. Religion has shaped our understanding of thefamily. Most weddings in the United States, for example, are conductedby clergy and take place in a religious institution, regardlessof the religious devotion or piety of the couple. . . . The tensionaround family diversity is acutely illustrated by the polarized “familyvalues” debate that emerged over a decade ago and continues to undergirdpolitical and religious discourse related to family issues.

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