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Title: SEX, MARRIAGE, AND FAMILY IN WORLD RELIGIONS
By: M. Christian Green, John Witte Jr., Don Browning (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0231131178
ISBN 13: 9780231131179
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Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 4 March, 2009
Pages: 496
Synopsis: Spanning thousands of years, this new collection brings together writings and teachings about sex, marriage, and family from the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian traditions. The volume includes traditional texts as well as contemporary materials showing how the religions have responded to the changing conditions and mores of modern life. It reveals the similarities and differences among the various religions and the development of ideas and teachings within each tradition. Selections shed light on each religion's views on a range of subjects, including sexuality and sexual pleasure, the meaning and purpose of marriage, the role of betrothal, the status of women, the place of romance, grounds for divorce, celibacy, and sexual deviance. Separate chapters devoted to each religion include introductions by leading scholars that contextualize the readings. The selections are drawn from a variety of genres including ritual, legal, theological, poetic, and mythic texts.The volume contains such diverse examples as the Zohar on conjugal manners, a contemporary Episcopalian liturgy for same-sex unions, Qur'anic passages on the equality of the sexes, the Ka-masu-tra on husbands, wives, and lovers, Buddhist writings on celibacy, and Confucian teachings on filial piety. Contributors include: Michael S. Berger, Emory University; Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Richmond School of Law; Alan Cole, Lewis and Clark College; Paul B. Courtright, Emory University; Patricia Buckley Ebrey, University of Washington; Raja M. El-Habti, Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights; Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University; Mark D. Jordan, Emory University
US Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Publication: US
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Returns: Returnable
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FROM CULTURE WARS TO COMMON GROUND, SECOND EDITION (PB)
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RELIGION AND SEXUALITY IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE (PB)
RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENT (HB)
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RELIGIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (PB)
RELIGIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (PB)
REWEAVING THE SOCIAL TAPESTRY (PB)
RITUAL AND PASTORAL CARE (PB)
SECOND NATURE
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