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The Religion and Family Connection

Social Science Perspectives

Darwin L. Thomas, Editor
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Table of Contents

  • Preface
    Darwin L. Thomas
  • The Religion and Family Connection
    Increasing Dialogue in the Social Sciences
    Darwin L. Thomas and Gwendolyn C. Henry
  • Reciprocal Influences of Family and Religion in a Changing World
    Arland Thornton
  • Religion and Family in Middletown, USA
    Howard M. Bahr and Bruce A. Chadwick
  • The Contemporary American Jewish Family
    Jay Y. Brodbar-Nemzer
  • The American Catholic Family: Signs of Cohesion and Polarization
    William V. D'Antonio
  • Four C’s of the Mormon Family: Chastity, Conjugality, Children, and Chauvinism
    Tim B. Heaton
  • Contemporary Challenges for Religion and the Family from a Protestant Woman’s Point of View
    Letha Dawson Scanzoni
  • Family Life: An Old Order Amish Manifesto
    Marc A. Olshan
  • Family and Religious Change in a Peripheral Capitalist Society: Mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland
    Eugene Hynes
  • The Effect of Domestic/Religious Individualism on Suicide
    Steven Stack
  • The Influence of Three Agents of Religious Socialization: Family, Church, and Peers
    Marie Cornwall
  • Religious Sources of Gender Traditionalism
    Merlin B. Brinkerhoff and Marlene MacKie
  • Familial Influence on Religious Involvement
    Gerald N. Stott
  • The Impact of Parental Views of the Nature of Humankind upon Child-Rearing Attitudes
    Lawrence O. Clayton
  • The New Christian Right’s View of the Family and Its Social Science Critics: A Study in Differing Presuppositions
    Patrick H. McNamara
  • Developments in Modern Physics and Their Implications for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Mark A. Schroll
  • Families and Religions
    An Anthropological Typology
    James V. Spickard
  • Types of Religious Values and Family Cultures
    Horst J. Helle
  • Future Prospects for Religion and Family Studies: The Mormon Case
    Darwin L. Thomas

About the Book

In this volume, twenty-one prominent social scientists address the complex set of relationships that emerge between religion and the family. They show that increased knowledge of how religions and families influence each other sheds light on vaguely understood processes of social change and sharpens questions asked about the church and family influence on such things as marriage, divorce, abortion, birth control, children, sex roles, authority patterns, and belief systems. The authors discuss the religion and family connection in a variety of settings: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Mormon, Amish, Ireland, and Middletown, U.S.A., among others.

ISBN 0-8849-4636-3

Published in 1988

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