| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
the transformation of religion and Christianity |
| Author: |
SeamonErika B., |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Christianities of the world |
| Subject: |
Interfaith marriage - United States. - |
| Subject: |
RELIGION / General. - |
| Subject: |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137014856 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
This book explores the historical, theological and societal dyclmics of religious intermarriage as a way to introduce scholars to the myriad of factors that have contributed and will continue to contribute to the complete transformation of religion and Christianity in the twenty-first century. |
| ISBN: |
9781137014856electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137014857electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
PART I: HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS INTERMARRIAGE: A STORY OF LIBERATION AND SHIFTING BOUNDARIES Seeds of Liberation: Theological and Legal Doors Open in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries An Era of Intra-Religious Marriage: Societal Doors Begin to Open in the Nineteenth Century An Era of Interreligious Marriage: Societal Doors Open in the Twentieth Century PART II: CONTEMPORARY INTERMARRIAGES: A STORY OF NEGOTIATION, INNOVATION, AND THE DEFIANCE OF BOUNDARIES Boundaries and Parameters: Normative Boundaries among Religions and between the Religious and Secular Stories of Contemporary Intermarriages: Paradox and Ambiguity An Era of Interfaith Marriage: The Defiance of Boundaries Transforming Religion and Christianity: The Emergence of Interfaith Space. |