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Sacred Divorce - Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships (Paperback)
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Sacred Divorce - Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships (Paperback)
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Even in our world of redefined life partnerships and living
arrangements, most marriages begin through sacred ritual connected
to a religious tradition. But if marriage rituals affirm deeply
held religious and secular values in the presence of clergy,
family, and community, where does divorce, which severs so many of
these sacred bonds, fit in? Sociologist Kathleen Jenkins takes up
this question in a work that offers both a broad, analytical
perspective and a uniquely intimate view of the role of religion in
ending marriages. For more than five years, Jenkins observed
religious support groups and workshops for the divorced and
interviewed religious practitioners in the midst of divorces, along
with clergy members who advised them. Her findings appear here in
the form of eloquent and revealing stories about individuals
managing emotions in ways that make divorce a meaningful, even
sacred process. Clergy from mainline Protestant denominations to
Baptist churches, Jewish congregations, Unitarian fellowships, and
Catholic parishes talk about the concealed nature of divorce in
their congregations. Sacred Divorce describes their cautious
attempts to overcome such barriers, and to assemble meaningful
symbols and practices for members by becoming compassionate
listeners, delivering careful sermons, refitting existing practices
like Catholic annulments and Jewish divorce documents (gets), and
constructing new rituals. With attention to religious, ethnic, and
class variations, covering age groups from early thirties to
mid-sixties and separations of only a few months to up to twenty
years, Sacred Divorce offers remarkable insight into individual and
cultural responses to divorce and the social emotions and spiritual
strategies that the clergy and the faithful employ to find meaning
in the breach. At once a sociological document, an ethnographic
analysis, and testament of personal experience, Sacred Divorce
provides guidance, strategies and answers to readers looking for
answers and those looking to heal.
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