Browning / Clairmont American Religions and the Family

How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-51082-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Browning, Don

Clairmont, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part 1: American Religions: The Question of Modernization and Family Life
1. Introduction
David A. Clairmont and Don S. Browning
2. Immigrant American Religions and the Family: New Diversity and Conservatism
Paul D. Numrich
Part 2: Family Traditions in the American Religions
3. The Cultural Contradictions of Mainline Family Ideology and Practice
W. Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Williamson
4. Evangelicals, Family, and Modernity
Margaret Bendroth
5. Native American Families and Religion
Raymond A. Bucko
6. Marriage, Family, and the Modern Catholic Mind
Julie Hanlon Rubio
7. Generative Approaches to Modernity, Discrimination, and Black Families
Robert M. Franklin
8. Latter-day Saint Marriage and Family Life in Modern America
David C. Dollahite
9. What Is a Jewish Family? The Radicalization of Rabbinic Discourse
Jack Wertheimer
10. Confucian "Familism" in America
Jeffrey F. Meyer
11. Family Life and Spiritual Kinship in American Buddhist Communities
Charles S. Prebish
12. Hindu Family in America
Raymond Brady Williams
13. Islam and the Family in North America
Jane I. Smith
Part 3: Public Frontiers for American Religions and the Family
14. Religion and Modernity in American Family Law
Lee E. Teitelbaum
15. Comparative Religion, Ethics, and American Family Life:

Concluding Questions and Future Directions
David A. Clairmont
The Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Don S. Browning is Alexander Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences and former director of the Religion, Culture, and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of eleven books, most recently Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do About It and Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies.David A. Clairmont is assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and former project coordinator for the Religion, Culture, and Family Project. His research and teaching interests include Catholic moral theology, Franciscan spirituality, comparative religious ethics, and the moral thought of Theravada Buddhism.