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

Edited by Don S. Browning and David A. Clairmont

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December, 2006
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13800-0
$55.00 / £38.00

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

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About the Author

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.

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