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Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society - Remaking Our Lives (Paperback)
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Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society - Remaking Our Lives (Paperback)
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Until recently, religious institutions have been organized to suit
the traditional American family, where the wife stayed at home,
caring for children. "Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary
Society" discusses how churches and synagogues today 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. As
families change, as more women enter the paid work force, and as
more people advocate individualism and feminist principles, a
barrier grows between families and organized religion. Traditional
families still feel tied to conventional religious participation,
but people committed to new patterns of family and work are looking
for alternatives.
In the second part of the book, we see how changing families and
flexible congregations are experimenting with new forms of
religious life. Many religious organizations have started day care
centers, are hospitable to women clergy, have changed to inclusive
language, and alter their weekly schedules. African-American
churches are tying work and family to religion, while dealing with
both the "truly disadvantaged" and the black middle class which may
feel alienated from the church. Other examples of special efforts
include groups at the margins of institutional religious life:
Catholics who meet without a priest, house church groups, and even
further outside organized religion, Limina, a group offormer
Catholic women who draw on ancient rituals to celebrate women. In
this book, we see how non-traditional families are turning away
from religion as they have known it, but are creating new spiritual
patterns.
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