Following are selections of books and articles (not published by the Religion, Culture, and Family Project) of potential interest to both general and specialist readers. All deal with the relationship between religion and the family. Click on a category to show a listing.
Michael Lawler, Marriage and Sacrament: A Theology of Christian Marriage (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993)
Theodore Mackin, What is Marriage? (New York: Paulist Press, 1992)
Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1982)
William P. Roberts, ed., Commitment to Partnership: Explorations of the Theology of Marriage (New York: Paulist Press, 1987)
David M. Thomas, Christian Marriage: A Journey Together (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1983)
Elizabeth Achtemeier, The Committed Marriage (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1976)
Herbert Anderson, Becoming Married (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993)
Michael E. Cavanagh, Before the Wedding: Look Before You Leap (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994)
William Johnson Everett, Blessed Be the Bond: Christian Perspectives on Marriage and Family (Fortress, 1985; University Press of America, 1990)
Diana S. Garland and David E. Garland, Beyond Companionship: Christians in Marriage (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986)
Christopher L. Webber, Re-inventing Marriage: A Re-view and Re-vision (Morehouse Publishing, 1994)
John Witte, Jr., "The Reformation of Marriage Law in Martin Luther's Germany: Its Significance Then and Now," Journal of Law and Religion 4, 1986, no. 2
Wilson Yates, "The Protestant View of Marriage," in Marriage Among
the Religions of the World, ed. Arlene Swindler (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen,
1990)
From Jewish Perspectives
Simon Greenberg, The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1977)
Moshe David Tendler, Pardes Rimonim: A Marriage Manual for the Jewish Family
(New York: Judaica Press, 1982)
From Secular Perspectives
Kingsley Davis, "The Meaning and Significance of Marriage in Contemporary Society," in Contemporary Marriage, ed. Kingsley Davis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1985)
B. J. Fowers and D. H. Olson, "Predicting Marital Success for Premarital Couple Types Based on PREPARE," Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 22, 1996.
Bronislaw Malinowski, Sex, Culture, and Myth, (1930)
Margaret Mead, Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World (New York: Dell, 1969)
David Popenoe, Life Without Father: Compelling New Evidence that Fatherhood and Marriage are Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society (New York: Free Press, 1996)
R. F. Stahmann and W. J. Hiebert, Premarital and Remarital Counseling (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997)
Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Pantheon Books, 1994)
Herbert Anderson and Susan Johnson, Regarding Children (Westminster, 1994)
David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem (New York: Basic Books, 1995)
Rodney Clapp, Families at the Crossroad: Beyond Traditional and Modern Options (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993)
John Patton and Brian H. Childs, Christian Marriage and Family: Caring for Our Generations (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1988)
Stephen G. Post, Spheres of Love: Toward a New Ethics of the Family (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1994)
John Coleman, ed., One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Thought (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991)
Dolores Curran, Traits of a Healthy Family (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1983)
John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1981)
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Committee on Marriage and the Family, A Family Perspective in Church and Society (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1988)
Simon Greenberg, The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1977)
Herbert Jacob, Silent Revolution: The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988)
Simon Greenberg, The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1977)
Lynn D. Wardle, "No-Fault Divorce and the Divorce Conundrum," Brigham Young University Law Review 79, 1991
Bernard Haring, No Way Out? Pastoral Care of the Divorced and Remarried (Slough, England: Saint Paul Publications, 1990)
Kevin Kelly, Divorce and Second Marriage: Facing the Challenge (New York: Seabury, 1983)
Richard Malone and J. R. Connery, eds., Contemporary Perspectives on Christian Marriage (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1984)
John Meyendorff, Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective (New York: Saint Vladimir's
Seminary Press, 1978)
From Protestant Perspectives
James G. Emerson, Jr., Divorce, the Church, and Remarriage (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1961)
Lewis Rambo, The Divorcing Christian (Nashville: Abingdon, 1983)
Larry Richards, Remarriage: A Gracious Gift From God (Waco, TX: Word Publishers,
1991)
From Jewish Perspectives
Barbara Kalin Bundt, "The Divorced-Parent Family and the Synagogue Community," Conservative Judaism, Winter 1982
Edward M. Gershfeld, The Jewish Law of Divorce (pamphlet) (New York: National Council of Jewish Women, 1967)
Earl A. Grollman, ed., Explaining Divorce to Children (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969)
Judith Hauptman, " Women's Liberation in the Talmudic Period: An Assessment," Conservative Judaism, Summer 1972
Allen S. Maller, "A Religious Perspective on Divorce," Journal of
Jewish Communal Service, Winter 1978
From Secular Perspectives
Abigail Trafford, The Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1982)
Judith S. Wallerstein and Joan Berlin Kelly, Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce (New York: Basic Books, 1980)
Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee, Second Chance (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1989)
Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale University Press, 1993)
Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978)
Robert W. Connell, Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987)
Pamela Couture, Blessed Are the Poor? Women's Poverty, Family Policy, and Practical Theology (Abingdon, 1991)
Carl Degler, At Odds: Women and Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)
Sanford Dornbusch and Myra Strober, eds, Feminism, Children, and the New Families (New York: Guilford, 1988)
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Also a Mother: Work and Family as Theological Dilemma (Abingdon, 1994)
Susan Miller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family (Basic Books, 1989)
Judith Plaskow, Sex, Sin, and Grace (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1980)
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Gender and Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (Intervarsity Press, 1990)
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation (Eerdmans, 1993)
Eugene R. August, The New Men's Studies: A Selected and Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography 2nd ed. (Libraries Unlimited, 1994)
R. William Betcher and William S. Pollack, In a Time of Fallen Heroes (New York: MacMillan, 1993)
David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem (New York: Basic Books, 1995)
Michael E. Lamb, ed., The Father's Role: Applied Perspectives (John Wiley and Sons, 1986)
Beverly C. Barnes and Jennifer K. Coplon, The Single-Parent Experience (Boston: Resource Communications, 1980)
Mary Anderson Cooper, "Beyond Stereotypes: Women as Heads of Households--A Look at Poverty, the Single Woman, Her Household--and Public Policy," Church and Society March/April 1993
Michael Hardey and Graham Crow, eds, Lone Parenthood: Coping with Constraints and Making Opportunities in Single Parent Families (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991)
Shlomo D. Levine, The Singular Problems of the Single Jewish Parent (New York: United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, 1981)
Kris Kissman and JoAnn Allen, Single Parent Families (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993)
Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur, Growing Up With a Single Parent (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994)
The creation story: Genesis 1:26-28
Family stories in Genesis: Genesis 12-50
The grounding of marriage in the order of creation: Genesis 2:18-24
The Ten Commandments: Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21
The family in community: Leviticus 25
A prophetic critique of divorce: Malachi 2:10-16
Naboth's vineyard: 1 Kings 21:1-16
Family relationships as metaphor: Hosea 1-3
A good man's code of ethics: Job 31
An alternative household structure: Matthew 19-20
Rebellious sons: Luke 15:11-32
Marital relations: 1 Corinthians 7:1-11
Healed women as models of servant leadership: Luke 4:38-39, 8:1-3
David L. Balch, Let Wives Be Submissive: The Domestic Code of 1 Peter (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983)
S. C. Barton, Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Warren Carter, Households and Discipleship: A Study of Matthew 19-20 (Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Press, 1994)
Will Deming, Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
I. Ellis, "Jesus and the Subversive Family," Scottish Journal of Theology 38, 1985
B. Glazier-McDonald, "Intermarriage, Divorce, and Family in Second Temple Judaism," Journal of Biblical Literature 106, 1987
G. P. Hugenberger, Marriage as Covenant: A Study of Biblical Law and Ethics Governing Marriage, Developed from the Perspective of Malachi (Leiden: Brill, 1994)
Turid Karlsen Seim, The Double Message: Patterns of Gender in Luke and Acts (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994)
Yvonne Sherwood, The Prostitute and the Prophet: Hosea's Marriage in Literary-Theoretical Perspective (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996)
Renita J. Weems, Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995)
R. Westbrook, Property and the Family in Biblical Law (Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplemental Series 113, 1991)
C. J. H. Wright, God's People in God's Land: Family, Land and Property in the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1990)
O. Larry Yarbrough, "Not Like the Gentiles: Marriage Rules in the Letters of Paul," Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 80 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985)
Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale University Press, 1993)
James A. Brundage, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (New York: Basic Books, 1990)
John T. Noonan, Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists (Harvard University Press, 1965)
Steven E. Ozment, When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (Harvard University Press, 1983)
Elizabeth Achtemeier, Preaching about Family Relationships (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1987)
Brandt D. Baker, Welcoming Children: Experiential Children's Sermons (Minneapolis:
Augsburg, 1987)
vJerome Berryman, Godly Play: A Way of Religious Education (San Francisco: Harper-San
Francisco, 1991)
Ernest Boyer, Jr., A Way in the World: Family Life as Spiritual (New York: Harper & Row, 1984)
LeAnn Ciampa, Praying with Children (Nashville: Abingdon, 1991)
William L. Coleman, Teen Stress: Stories to Guide You (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1994)
Evelyn M. Duvall, Marriage and Family Development (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)
Ann Reed Held, Keeping Faith in Families (Belleville, IL: National Presbyterian Mariners, 1987)
Gertrude Mueller Nelson, To Dance with God: Family Ritual and Community Celebration (New York: Paulist Press, 1986)
David Ng and Virginia Thomas, Children in the Worshipping Community (Atlanta: John Knox Pres, 1981)
Gretchen Wolff Pritchard, Offering the Gospel to Children (Boston: Cowley Publications, 1992)
Margaret M. Sawin, Family Enrichment with Family Clusters (Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1979)
Margaret M. Sawin, Hope for Families (New York: Sadlier, 1982)
Virginia Sloyan and Gabe Huck, Children's Liturgies (Washington, DC: Liturgical Conference, 1970)
Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome W. Berryman, Young Children and Worship (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989)
Wendy M. Wright, Sacred Dwelling in Spirituality of Family Life (New York: Crossroad, 1989)
Paul David Numrich, Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization in Two Immigrant theravada Buddhist Temples (Knoxville: University of Tenessee Press, 1996)
Rick Fields, How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (Boulder and Boston: Shambhala, 1992)
Rita Gross, Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist HIstory, Analysis and Reconstruction
of Buddhism (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993)
Hinduism and the Family
Raymond Brady Williams, Religions of Immigrants from Indian and Pakistan: New Threads in the American Tapestry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
Barbara C. Aswad and Nancy Adadow Gray, eds., Challenges to the Arab-American Family and ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services)in Family and Gender and American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996)
Earle H. Waugh, Sharon McIrvin Abu-Laban and Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, eds., Muslim Families in North America (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1991)
Tradition, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, Tikkun, periodicals which represent various perspectives from liberal to conservative.
James A. Brundage, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Homer H. Clark, The Law of Domestic Relations in the United States, 2nd ed. (St. Paul: West Publishing, 1988)
Menachem Elon, ed., Principles of Jewish Law (Jerusalem: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1975)
Mary Ann Glendon, The Transformation of Family Law in the United States and Western Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989)
Herbert Jacob, Silent Revolution: The Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988)
Harry Krause, Family Law in a Nutshell (St. Paul: West Publishing, 1995)
Milton C. Regan, Family Law and the Pursuit of Intimacy (New York: New York University Press, 1993)
Carl E. Schneider, "Moral Discourse and the Transformation of American Family Law," Michigan Law Review 83, 1985: 1803
Lynn D. Wardle, "No-Fault Divorce and the Divorce Conundrum," Brigham Young University Law Review 79, 1991
Pamela Couture, Blessed Are the Poor? Women's Poverty, Family Policy, and Practical Theology (Abingdon, 1991)
Sylvia Hewlett, When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children (New York: Basic Books, 1991)
John R. Kavanaugh, (Still) Following Christ in a Consumer Culture (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1992)
M. Douglas Meeks, God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989)
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Also a Mother: Work and Family as Theological Dilemma (Abingdon, 1994)
John Raines and Donna Day-Lower, Modern Work and Human Meaning (Nashville: Abingdon, 1986)
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett, She Works, He Works: How Two Income Families are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off (San Francisco: Harper, 1996)
Juliet Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (New York: Basic Books, 1991)
U.S. Catholic Bishops, Economic Justice for All (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1986)
Ronald Cole-Turner, The New Genesis: Theology and the Genetic Revolution (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993)
David Heyd, Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)
Bruce R. Reichenback and V. Elving Anderson, On Behalf of God: A Christian Ethic for Biology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995)
William Storrar and Iain Torreance, Human Genetics: A Christian Perspective (Edinburgh: Church of Scotland, 1995)
Paul Lauritzen, Pursuing Parenthood: Ethical Issues in Assisted Reproduction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993)
Thomas A. Shannon and Lisa Sowle Cahill, Religion and Artificial Reproduction (New York: Crossroad, 1988)
John Paul II, The Gospel of Life (New York: Random House, 1995)
Pope John Center, Reproductive Technologies, Marriage, and the Church (Braintree, MA: Pope John Center, 1988)
E. V. Vacek, "Vatican Instruction on Reproductive Technology," Theological Studies 49, 1988
M. Wallace and T. W. Hilgers, The Gift of Life: The Proceedings of a National
Conference on the Valican Instruction on Reproductive Ethics and Technology
(Omaha: Pope Paul VI Institute Press, 1990)
From Jewish Perspectives
Abraham Ben Isaish and Benjamin Sharfman, trans. The Pentateuch and Rashi's Commentary (Brooklyn: S. S. & R. Publishing, 1949)
Arthur A. Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr, eds., Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought (New York: Free Press, 1988)
Barry W. Holtz, Finding Our Way (New York: Schocken Books, 1990)
John Kekes, Moral Wisdom and Good Lives (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995)
Byron L. Sherwin, In Partnership With God (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990)