American religions and the family
Subtitle: how faith traditions cope with modernization and democracy
By: edited by Don S. Browning and David A. Clairmont
Contributors: Browning, Don S; Clairmont, David A
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780231138000
Subjects: Family -- Religious life; Religion and culture -- United States; United States -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: American religions : the question of modernization and family life; title: Introduction / David A. Clairmont and Don S. Browning; title: Immigrant American religions and the family / Paul D. Numrich; title: Family traditions in the American religions; title: The cultural contradictions of mainline family ideology and practice / W. Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Williamson; title: Evangelicals, family, and modernity / Margaret Bendroth; title: Native American families and religion / Raymond A. Bucko; title: Marriage, family, and the modern Catholic mind / Julie Hanlon Rubio; title: Generative approaches to modernity, discrimination, and Black families / Robert M. Franklin; title: Latter-day Saint marriage and family life in modern America / David C. Dollahite; title: What is a Jewish family? : the radicalization of rabbinic discourse / Jack Wertheimer; title: Confucian "familism" in America / Jeffrey F. Meyer; title: Family life and spiritual kinship in American Buddhist communities / Charles S. Prebish; title: Hindu family in America / Raymond Brady Williams; title: Islam and the family in North America / Jane I. Smith; title: Public frontiers for American religions and the family; title: Religion and modernity in American family law / Lee E. Teitelbaum; title: Comparative religion, ethics, and American family life : concluding questions and future directions / David A. Clairmont