Links + Resources
Women, Marriage, and Religion
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/2003/08/01_marriageII/index.shtml]
A Speaking of Faith program that explores the rights and concerns of women in marriage and family in contemporary society. Krista speaks with three religious feminists: Rebecca Chopp, president of Colgate University; Mary Stewart van Leeuwen, an Evangelical scholar; and Kecia Ali, who directed the Islam section of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University.
1966 Article from The Atlantic Monthly
[http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/docs/divorceinam.htm]
An essay by Christopher Lasch, "Divorce and the Family in America," in which the author addresses some of the concerns of an increasing divorce rate and the breakdown of morality in contemporary culture and compares it to similar thoughts occurring in Victorian times with the progression of marriage and divorce.
The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion
[http://www.law.emory.edu/cisr/]
Sponsors projects at the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta that explore the influence of religious traditions on law, politics, society, and culture. Includes the project "Sex, Marriage and Family and the Religions of the Book," which summons knowledge from the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian perspectives.
"Sex, Marriage, Family, & Religion"
[http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/winter2003/religion.html]
Emory Magazine features an article on interfaith marriage, exploring the idea that such unions can help us appreciate the wider implications of religious understanding between groups.
Making Marriage Work Seminars
[http://adulteducation.uj.edu/Content/CourseUnits.asp?CID=1064]
Claiming a divorce rate of eight percent, the University of Judaism offers four series of classes for recently engaged couples, interfaith relationships, existing marriages, and couples with children from a previous relationship.
Religion, the Marriage Movement & Marriage Policy
[http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=26]
A transcript of a May 2002 event held by The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in which panelists discussed federal, state, and local policy designed to strengthen marriage and religion's role in this area. The discussion addressed the Bush administration's proposal to devote up to $300 million for "programs that encourage healthy, stable marriages," a proposal that is part of its welfare reauthorization plan. Participants included Wade Horn, Theodora Ooms, Wendell Primus, Richard Cizik, Elenora Giddings-Ivory, Anthony Perkins, and Meg Riley.