Family transformed
Subtitle: religion, values, and society in American life
By: Steven M. Tipton, John Witte, Jr., editors.
Contributors: Tipton, Steven M.; Witte, John, 1959-
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Family -- Religious aspects; Family -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Marriage in the matrix of habit and history / Robert N. Bellah; title: The biology of family values : reproductive strategies of our fellow primates / Frans B.M. de Waal and Amy S. Pollick; title: Sex, marriage, and family life : the teachings of nature / Stephen J. Pope; title: The family as contested terrain / Robert Wuthnow; title: An economic perspective on sex, marriage, and the family in the contemporary United States / Robert T. Michael; title: The family in trouble : since when? for whom? / Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout; title: Marriage and responsible fatherhood : the social science case and thoughts about a theological case / Linda J. Waite, William J. Doherty; title: The changing pathway to marriage : trends in dating, first unions, and marriage among young adults / Barbara Dafoe Whitehead; title: American middle-class families : class, social reproduction, and ritual / Bradd Shore; title: The heart of the matter : the family as the site of fundamental, ethical struggle / Jean Bethke Elshtain; title: Inside the preindustrial household : the rule of men and the rights of women and children in late medieval and Reformation Europe / Steven Ozment; title: Retrieving and reconstructing law, religion, and marriage in the Western Christian tradition / John Witte, Jr.; title: The world situation of families : marriage reformation as a cultural work / Don S. Browning.