Book Detail:
Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814782515
Size: 22.96 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1999-09
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Marriage After Modernity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Most Christians hold marriage to be a sacrament, created and uniquely blessed by God. Yet, the theology of marriage rarely matches its actual experience. Marriage is too often discovered to be a violent, loveless institution, and increasingly it is delayed, avoided, and terminated.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781850759485
Size: 27.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1999-01-01
Category: Literary Collections
Language: en
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Download PDF Marriage After Modernity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book offers nothing less than a new vision for Christian marriage at a time of unprecedented social and theological change. It breaks new ground in drawing on earlier traditions of betrothal and informal marriage in welcoming some forms of pre-marital cohabitation, and provides a new defence of the link between marriage and procreation by sketching a theology of liberation for children. Christian principles for the use of contraception by married and not-yet-married couples are restated, and a comprehensive theology of marriage is worked out, based on re-worked biblical models. Marriage as a Christian sacrament, mutually administered in a lifelong partnership of equals is affirmed. A chapter on divorce brings new light to bear on legitimate theological grounds for 'the parting of the ways'. The question of whether marriage is a heterosexual institution is addressed, and particular attention is paid throughout the book to overcoming the distorting effect of the overwhelming androcentric bias of much Christian thought on marriage, to the experience of wives, and to all those women and men for whom marriage is not their vocation.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Witte
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 11.25 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020
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Language: en
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Download PDF Review Of Adrian Thatcher eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is a brief review of an important text by one of the leading Christian scholars of the family who is trying to reconcile traditional Christian teachings on marriage and the troubling marital condition in the post-modern West. Thatcher ultimately commends the traditional Christian monogamous, heterosexual, permanent marriage, citing Scripture and various leading Christian theologians of the present and past. But he also offers creative new ways of thinking about engagements contracts, non-marital cohabitation, premarital sex, and more.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521009553
Size: 37.17 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2002-03-21
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Living Together And Christian Ethics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The first positive, in-depth study of cohabitation outside marriage from a mainstream Christian theological perspective.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas C. Oden
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310753910
Size: 58.91 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1992
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF After Modernity What eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This vigorous and incisive critique of modernity lights the path to recovering the revitalizing heritage of classical Christianity.

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Book Detail:
Author: Julia Moses
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474276121
Size: 66.84 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-11-16
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Marriage Law And Modernity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Marriage, Law and Modernity offers a global perspective on the modern history of marriage. Widespread recent debate has focused on the changing nature of families, characterized by both the rise of unmarried cohabitation and the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, historical understanding of these developments remains limited. How has marriage come to be the target of national legislation? Are recent policies on same-sex marriage part of a broader transformation? And, has marriage come to be similar across the globe despite claims about national, cultural and religious difference? This collection brings together scholars from across the world in order to offer a global perspective on the history of marriage. It unites legal, political and social history, and seeks to draw out commonalities and differences by exploring connections through empire, international law and international migration.

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Book Detail:
Author: Usha Sharma
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170999980
Size: 68.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2005-01-01
Category: India
Language: en
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Download PDF Marriage In Indian Society eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Laurel Kendall
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520202007
Size: 44.63 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1996-05-31
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Getting Married In Korea eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues—identity, romantic love, women’s work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies—Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century. Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women’s magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write “Korea” in a complex and ever changing social milieu.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rochona Majumdar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390809
Size: 20.96 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-03-23
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Marriage And Modernity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, “ancient” social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an “Indian” tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced “traditions”—the extended family and arranged marriage—entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new “marketplace” for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India. Majumdar examines three broad developments related to the modernity of arranged marriage: the growth of a marriage market, concomitant debates about consumption and vulgarity in the conduct of weddings, and the legal regulation of family property and marriages. Drawing on matrimonial advertisements, wedding invitations, poems, photographs, legal debates, and a vast periodical literature, she shows that the modernization of families does not necessarily imply a transition from extended kinship to nuclear family structures, or from matrimonial agreements negotiated between families to marriage contracts between individuals. Colonial Bengal tells a very different story.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470777303
Size: 54.42 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Theology And Families eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This timely book, by one of the world’s leading theologians in this field, makes a positive theological contribution to present intellectual and practical discussions about families and children. Explores the intellectual and practical debates about the changing nature of family forms, roles and relationships, and how Christian faith and theology can contribute to the thriving of families and children. Considers the causes and consequences of changes to families over recent decades. Utilizes the theological resources that are best equipped to deal with these changes and to shape ethical teaching, ethical practice, moral judgements, and public policies. Develops family-friendly readings of scripture, tradition and doctrine, and moves forward theological treatment of marriage, gender and children.

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Book Detail:
Author: Vassos Argyrou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521560950
Size: 40.25 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1996-06-13
Category: Reference
Language: en
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Download PDF Tradition And Modernity In The Mediterranean eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is a legitimising discourse. It is an idiom which Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernisation, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe.

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Book Detail:
Author: Andr? Burgui?re
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Size: 57.73 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1996
Category: Families
Language: en
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Download PDF A History Of The Family The Impact Of Modernity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This monumental work in two volume brings together experts from every discipline to show what the study of each epoc has to tell us about the family, and conversely what the study of the family can reveal about times past and present. Why nis the family universal and yet so different in its various cultural manifestations? What notions of kinship regulate it, and how do these develop and change? In this volume the authors explore the impact of the industrial revolution, socialism, and contemporary practices from birth control to the widespread employment of women on the forms and norms of the family.

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Book Detail:
Author: Don S. Browning
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802811127
Size: 56.99 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2003-03-20
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Marriage And Modernization eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The processes of modernization and globalization promise more wealth and health for many people. But they are also a threat to the stability and quality of marriage and family life. This new book -- at once sobering and constructive -- looks at the impact of these processes on marriage and asks what Christianity, in cooperation with other religions, can do to strengthen married life today. Among the deleterious effects of modernization and globalization on marriage are a worldwide drift of men away from the responsibility of parenthood and the tendency of mothers too readily to take on the task of childrearing alone. After looking at recent research on these and other problems, Don Browning suggests that the cure for modern marital disruption entails reforming and reconstructing the institution of marriage while also nurturing relevant forms of social support. Yet the effort to initiate a "world marriage revival" requires a complex cultural work, and Browning explores the key contributions that the religions of the world must make for such an effort to be successful.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stella R. Quah
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian
ISBN: 9971988852
Size: 12.73 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1988
Category: Family size
Language: en
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Download PDF Between Two Worlds eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Keith McMahon
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824833767
Size: 34.15 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2009-11-24
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Polygamy And Sublime Passion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male'. This title introduces a fresh concept, 'passive polygamy', to explain the unusual number of Qing stories in which women take charge of a man's desires, turning him into an instrument of female will.

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Book Detail:
Author: Matthew Levering
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725251957
Size: 24.63 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2020-08-12
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Engaging The Doctrine Of Marriage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book is the next volume in Levering's Engaging Doctrine series. The prior volume of the series examined the doctrine of creation. The present volume examines the purpose of creation: the marriage of God and humans. God created the cosmos for the purpose of the marriage of God and his people--and through his people, the marriage of God and the entire creation. Given that the central meaning or "prime analogate" of marriage is the marriage of God and humankind, the study of human marriage needs to be shaped by this eschatological goal and foregrounded as a dogmatic theme. After a first chapter defending and explaining the biblical witness to the marriage of God and his people, the book explores various themes: marriage as an image of God, original sin as the fall of the primordial marriage, the cross of Jesus Christ and marital self-sacrificial love, the procreative and unitive ends of marriage, marriage as a sacrament, and marriage's importance for social justice and for the upbuilding of the kingdom of God. Along the way, the book provides an introduction to the key biblical, patristic, medieval, modern, and contemporary thinkers and controversies regarding the doctrine of marriage.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Witte
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666750646
Size: 78.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2022-07-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Impact Of The Family eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The family is humanity’s oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in many liberal lands. This volume gathers scholars from sociology, psychology, history, religion, ethics, law, and medicine from five continents to analyze the complex nature and place of the family in character formation and human flourishing. The chapters study the impact of catechesis, schooling, work, and discipline on the development of individual moral agency and responsibility. They document the critical roles of family love, trust, fidelity, and storytelling in shaping the moral character of all family members from infancy to old age. They describe effective strategies of resistance and resilience for family members who face abuse, divorce, death, chauvinism, racism, and homophobia. And several chapters challenge modern arguments and policies that aim to flatten if not abolish the marital family, even while they call for family law reforms.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rochona Majumdar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198063834
Size: 61.17 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009
Category: Arranged marriage
Language: en
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Download PDF Marriage And Modernity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Scott Yenor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 79.91 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2011
Category: Families
Language: en
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Download PDF Family Politics eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. What is family? What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society's disputes over the meanings of these human social institutions, Scott Yenor carefully examines a roster of major and unexpected modern political philosophers--from Locke and Rousseau to Hegel and Marx to Freud and Beauvoir. He lucidly presents how these individuals developed an understanding of family in order to advance their goals of political and social reform. Through this exploration, Yenor unveils the effect of modern liberty on this foundational institution and argues that the quest to pursue individual autonomy has undermined the nature of marriage and jeopardizes its future.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Shumway
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814798306
Size: 48.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2003-08
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Modern Love eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “My ideas of romance came from the movies,” said Woody Allen, and it is to the movies—as well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help books—that David Shumway turns for his history of modern love. Modern Love argues that a crisis in the meaning and experience of marriage emerged when it lost its institutional function of controlling the distribution of property, and instead came to be seen as a locus for feelings of desire, togetherness, and loss. Over the course of the twentieth century, partly in response to this crisis, a new language of love—“intimacy”—emerged, not so much replacing but rather coexisting with the earlier language of “romance.” Reading a wide range of texts, from early twentieth-century advice columns and their late twentieth-century antecedent, the relationship self-help book, to Hollywood screwball comedies, and from the “relationship films” of Woody Allen and his successors to contemporary realist novels about marriages, Shumway argues that the kinds of stories the culture has told itself have changed. Part layperson’s history of marriage and romance, part meditation on intimacy itself, Modern Love will be both amusing and interesting to almost anyone who thinks about relationships (and who doesn’t?).

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