Religion and Family in a Changing Society / Penny Edgell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgell, Penny, author.

Series:

Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology

Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church work with families--New York (State).

Families--Religious life--New York (State).

New York (State)--Religious life and customs.

Local Subjects:

Church work with families--New York (State).

Families--Religious life--New York (State).

New York (State)--Religious life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The 1950's religious boom was organized around the male-breadwinner lifestyle in the burgeoning postwar suburbs. But since the 1950's, 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. Contested Changes-"Family Values" in Local Religious Life

Chapter Two. Religious Involvement and Religious Institutional Change

Chapter Three. Religion, Family, and Work

Chapter Four. Styles of Religious Involvement

Chapter Five. "The Problem with Families Today . . . "

Chapter Six. The Practice of Family Ministry

Chapter Seven. Religious Familism and Social Change

Appendix. Choices

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400850761

1400850762

OCLC:

863670353