American Religions and the Family : : How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy /

American Religions and the Family : : How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy / / ed. by David Clairmont, Don Browning.

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Religions respond to capitalism, democracy, industrialization, feminism, individualism, and the phenomenon of globalization in a variety of ways. Some religions conform to these challenges, if not capitulate to them; some critique or resist them, and some work to transform the modern societies they...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bendroth, Margaret,
Browning, Don S.,
Bucko, Raymond A .,
Clairmont, David A .,
Clairmont, David A.,
Dollahite, David C.,
Franklin, Robert M.,
Meyer, Jeffrey F .,
Numrich, Paul D.,
Prebish, Charles S .,
Rubio, Julie Hanlon,
Smith, Jane I .,
Teitelbaum, Lee E .,
Wertheimer, Jack,
Wilcox, W. Bradford,
Williams, Raymond Brady,
Williamson, Elizabeth,
HerausgeberIn:
Browning, Don,
Clairmont, David,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. American religions: the question of modernization and family life
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Immigrant American Religions and the Family
  • Part II. Family Traditions in the American Religions
  • 3. The Cultural Contradictions of Mainline Family Ideology and Practice
  • 4. Evangelicals, Family, and Modernity
  • 5. Native American Families and Religion
  • 6. Marriage, Family, and the Modern Catholic Mind
  • 7. Generative Approaches to Modernity, Discrimination, and Black Families
  • 8. Latter-day Saint Marriage and Family Life in Modern America
  • 9. What Is a Jewish Family? The Radicalization of Rabbinic Discourse
  • 10. Confucian "Familism" in America
  • 11. Family Life and Spiritual Kinship in American Buddhist Communities
  • 12. Hindu Family in America
  • 13. Islam and the Family in North America
  • Part III. Public Frontiers for American Religions and the Family
  • 14. Religion and Modernity in American Family Law
  • 15. Comparative Religion, Ethics, and American Family Life: Concluding Questions and Future Directions
  • Contributors
  • Index

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