From Culture Wars to Common Ground, Second Edition: Religion and the American Family Debate / Edition 2

by Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller-Mclemore, Pamela D. Couture, K. Brynolf Lyon, Robert M. Franklin

Overview

What is the status of the American family? How is it changing? Are these changes making anything better? What is the future of the family? Does religion offer a positive answer? Not since Habits of the Heart has one book confronted these important issues with such personal and societal impact. This groundbreaking study argues for the creation of a new family ethic that must be central to the agendas of both contemporary society and the church.

The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664223526
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	10/01/2000
Series:	Family, Religion, and Culture
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

	Preface to the Second Edition	xi
	Preface to the First Edition	xv
	Introduction	1
Part 1	The Issues
1.	The Family (1990-1996): From a Conservative to a Liberal Issue	29
2.	The Family Crisis: Who Understands It?	50
3.	Religion and the Ideal Family: Nineteenth-Century Variations in North America	73
Part 2	Traditions
4.	Love, Christian Family Theory, and Evolutionary Psychology	101
5.	Honor, Shame, and Equality in Early Christian Families	129
Part 3	The Voices
6.	Feminism, Religion, and the Family	157
7.	Families and the Therapeutic	190
8.	Christian Profamily Movements: The Black Church, Roman Catholics, and the Christian Right	219
9.	Economic Voices: State Family, Market Family, and Civil Society	247
Part 4	Directions
10.	A Practical Theology of Families	271
11.	Critical Familism: New Directions for Church and Society	306
Appendix	Hermeneutic Social Science and Practical Theology	335
	Notes	343
	Index	384
	Tables
1.	Views of Respondents and Their Parents on Models of Love	19
2.	A Comparison of Perceived Behavior and Attitudes about Models of Love	20
3.	Comparison of Different Models of Love	160
4.	Comparison of African Americans' and European Americans' Beliefs about Models of Love	188
5.	Correlation of Those Reporting Extreme Partner Satisfaction with Their Preferred Model of Love	201
6.	Preferred Behavior in Conflict Situations	281
7.	Types of Conflict-Resolving Behavior Correlated with Spirituality	291
8.	Beliefs about Love Correlated with Spirituality	291