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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 of former 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.
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 of former 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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This chapter explores family structure change in America from the fifties to the present, nostalgia about the family as a cultural response, and the effects of both factors on the church. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oikos images, workforce hypothesis, social class hypothesis, family attenders, oikos patterns, intentional eucharistic communities, house church groups, congregational public, married persons without children, premoral goods, religious individualists, small faith communities, summer solstice ritual, home cell groups, family residue, cohort replacement, early boomers, house church movement, nonreligious organizations, birth cohort effects, public church, workforce participation, fulltime job, role exit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, San Francisco, University of California Press, Men Women, American Sociological Review, Beverly Hills, Roman Catholic, Habits of the Heart, Wade Clark Roof, American Mainline Religion, Second World War, Basic Books, Review of Religious Research, Robert Bellah, Joan Aldous, New Brunswick, Sage Publications, General Social Survey, Government Printing Office, Native American, Peter Berger, Sunday School, Free Press, National Catholic
This chapter explores family structure change in America from the fifties to the present, nostalgia about the family as a cultural response, and the effects of both factors on the church. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oikos images, workforce hypothesis, social class hypothesis, family attenders, oikos patterns, intentional eucharistic communities, house church groups, congregational public, married persons without children, premoral goods, religious individualists, small faith communities, summer solstice ritual, home cell groups, family residue, cohort replacement, early boomers, house church movement, nonreligious organizations, birth cohort effects, public church, workforce participation, fulltime job, role exit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, San Francisco, University of California Press, Men Women, American Sociological Review, Beverly Hills, Roman Catholic, Habits of the Heart, Wade Clark Roof, American Mainline Religion, Second World War, Basic Books, Review of Religious Research, Robert Bellah, Joan Aldous, New Brunswick, Sage Publications, General Social Survey, Government Printing Office, Native American, Peter Berger, Sunday School, Free Press, National Catholic