Religion and Family in a Changing Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Family in a Changing Society write by Penny Edgell. This book was released on 2006. Religion and Family in a Changing Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contested changes: "family values" in local religious life -- |t Religious involvement and religious institutional change -- |t Religion, family, and work -- |t Styles of religious involvement -- |t "The problem with families today ..."--|t Practice of family ministry -- |t Religious familism and social change.
Religion and Family in a Changing Society
Religion and Family in a Changing Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Family in a Changing Society write by Penny Edgell. This book was released on 2013-12-03. Religion and Family in a Changing Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1950s religious boom was organized around the male-breadwinner lifestyle in the burgeoning postwar suburbs. But since the 1950s, family life has been fundamentally reconfigured in the United States. How do religion and family fit together today? This book examines how religious congregations in America have responded to changes in family structure, and how families participate in local religious life. Based on a study of congregations and community residents in upstate New York, sociologist Penny Edgell argues that while some religious groups may be nostalgic for the Ozzie and Harriet days, others are changing, knowing that fewer and fewer families fit this traditional pattern. In order to keep members with nontraditional family arrangements within the congregation, these innovators have sought to emphasize individual freedom and personal spirituality and actively to welcome single adults and those from nontraditional families. Edgell shows that mothers and fathers seek involvement in congregations for different reasons. Men tend to think of congregations as social support structures, and to get involved as a means of participating in the lives of their children. Women, by contrast, are more often motivated by the quest for religious experience, and can adapt more readily to pluralist ideas about family structure. This, Edgell concludes, may explain the attraction of men to more conservative congregations, and women to nontraditional religious groups.
Families and Religions
Families and Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Families and Religions write by William V. D'Antonio. This book was released on 1985-02-01. Families and Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is now a paperback edition of Families and Religions. American families and religions are facing a challenge -- the challenge of adapting to a rapidly changing society with a self-oriented culture. The contributors examine a spectrum of responses to changing social norms, and assess the role that religion plays in modern family life. They seek to interpret the problems faced by one of our most basic social institutions through a variety of perspectives. `The macroperspective and editorial unity are everywhere evident, but readers will also appreciate many individual articles...Definitely recommended.' -- Choice, April 1984 `...taken together...the essays represent a good
Families and Faith
Families and Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Families and Faith write by Vern L. Bengtson. This book was released on 2013-10-04. Families and Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Distinguished Book Award from American Sociology Association Sociology of Religion Section Winner of the Richard Kalish Best Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America Few things are more likely to cause heartache to devout parents than seeing their child leave the faith. And it seems, from media portrayals, that this is happening more and more frequently. But is religious change between generations common? How does religion get passed down from one generation to the next? How do some families succeed in passing on their faith while others do not? Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations seeks to answer these questions and many more. For almost four decades, Vern Bengtson and his colleagues have been conducting the largest-ever study of religion and family across generations. Through war and social upheaval, depression and technological revolution, they have followed more than 350 families composed of more than 3,500 individuals whose lives span more than a century--the oldest was born in 1881, the youngest in 1988--to find out how religion is, or is not, passed down from one generation to the next. What they found may come as a surprise: despite enormous changes in American society, a child is actually more likely to remain within the fold than leave it, and even the nonreligious are more likely to follow their parents' example than to rebel. And while outside forces do play a role, the crucial factor in whether a child keeps the faith is the presence of a strong fatherly bond. Mixing unprecedented data with gripping interviews and sharp analysis, Families and Faith offers a fascinating exploration of what allows a family to pass on its most deeply-held tradition--its faith.
Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society
Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society write by Nancy Tatom Ammerman. This book was released on 2014-02-04. Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until recently, religious institutions have been organized to suit the traditional American family, where the wife stayed at home, caring for children. Today, churches and synagogues are beginning to adapt to the reality of the American family: dual-career marriages, high levels of divorce, interfaith marriages, partnerships that may not be marriages. Religious organizations must serve families that don't fall into the Ozzie and Harriet mold. The first group of papers in this edited volume documents changing trends in the connection between religion, work, and the family. In the second part of the book, we see how changing families and flexible congregations are experimenting with new forms of religious life.
