Family Transformed

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781589010666

Religion, Values, and Society in American Life

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Edited by Steven M. Tipton, John Witte Jr.
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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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229 x 152 mm
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430 g
Pages:
328

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List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction:No Place Like HomeSteven M. Tipton and John Witte, Jr. Part I: All in the Family: Levels of Analysis, Angles of Vision1. Marriage in the Matrix of Habit and HistoryRobert N. Bellah 2. The Biology of Family Values: Reproductive Strategies of Our Fellow PrimatesFrans B.M. de Waal and Amy S. Pollick 3. Sex, Marriage, and Family Life: The Teachings of NatureStephen J. Pope Part II: Happily Ever After? Profiles in Motion of Marriage and the Family4. The Family as Contested TerrainRobert Wuthnow 5. An Economic Perspective on Sex, Marriage, and the Family in the Contemporary United StatesRobert T. Michael 6. The Family in Trouble: Since When? For Whom?Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout Part III: I Do, I Don't: Reasons and Rites for and against Marriage and Family Life 7. Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood: The Social Science Case and Thoughts about a Theological CaseLinda J. Waite and William J. Doherty 8. The Changing Pathway to Marriage: Trends in Dating, First Unions, and Marriage among Young AdultsBarbara Dafoe Whitehead 9. American Middle-Class Families: Class, Social Reproduction, and Ritual Bradd Shore Part IV: Blessed Yoke and Fragile Freedom 10. The Heart of the Matter: The Family as the Site of Fundamental Ethical StruggleJean Bethke Elshtain 11. Inside the Preindustrial Household: The Rule of Men and the Rights of Women and Children in Late Medieval and Reformation EuropeSteven Ozment 12. Retrieving and Reconstructing Law, Religion, and Marriage in the Western TraditionJohn Witte, Jr. 13. The World Situation of Families: Marriage Reformation as a Cultural WorkDon S. BrowningEpilogue: It Takes a Society to Raise a FamilyRobert N. Bellah ContributorsIndex

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