1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I. American religions: the question of modernization and family life
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. 2. Immigrant American Religions and the Family 20
7. Part II. Family Traditions in the American Religions
8. 3. The Cultural Contradictions of Mainline Family Ideology and Practice 37
9. 4. Evangelicals, Family, and Modernity 56
10. 5. Native American Families and Religion 70
11. 6. Marriage, Family, and the Modern Catholic Mind 87
12. 7. Generative Approaches to Modernity, Discrimination, and Black Families 104
13. 8. Latter-day Saint Marriage and Family Life in Modern America 124
14. 9. What Is a Jewish Family? The Radicalization of Rabbinic Discourse 151
15. 10. Confucian “Familism” in America 168
16. 11. Family Life and Spiritual Kinship in American Buddhist Communities 185
17. 12. Hindu Family in America 197
18. 13. Islam and the Family in North America 211
19. Part III. Public Frontiers for American Religions and the Family
20. 14. Religion and Modernity in American Family Law 227
21. 15. Comparative Religion, Ethics, and American Family Life: Concluding Questions and Future Directions 244
22. Contributors 259
23. Index 263