American religions and the family : how faith traditions cope with modernization and democracy / edited by Don S. Browning and David A. Clairmont.

Contributor Browning, Don S.

Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

Descriptionviii, 277 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:American religions : the question of modernization and family life -- Introduction / David A. Clairmont and Don S. Browning -- Immigrant American religions and the family / Paul D. Numrich -- Family traditions in the American religions -- The cultural contradictions of mainline family ideology and practice / W. Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Williamson -- Evangelicals, family, and modernity / Margaret Bendroth -- Native American families and religion / Raymond A. Bucko -- Marriage, family, and the modern Catholic mind / Julie Hanlon Rubio -- Generative approaches to modernity, discrimination, and Black families / Robert M. Franklin -- Latter-day Saint marriage and family life in modern America / David C. Dollahite -- What is a Jewish family? : the radicalization of rabbinic discourse / Jack Wertheimer -- Confucian "familism" in America / Jeffrey F. Meyer -- Family life and spiritual kinship in American Buddhist communities / Charles S. Prebish -- Hindu family in America / Raymond Brady Williams -- Islam and the family in North America / Jane I. Smith -- Public frontiers for American religions and the family -- Religion and modernity in American family law / Lee E. Teitelbaum -- Comparative religion, ethics, and American family life : concluding questions and future directions / David A. Clairmont.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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