Religion and the Family

In this volume, the complex relationships between religion and the family is explored by fourteen scholars across a range of disciplines. Grounded in a shared focus on the evolving realities of family life and religious beliefs and practice in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, past and present, the essays address key questions: How has religion shaped conceptions of and life in the family? How have experiences of the family shaped religion? Drawing on Biblical studies, theology, spirituality, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and law, the contributors offer a new, more complex, picture and historically nuanced of this symbiotic relationship.

RONALD A. SIMKINS is Professor of Theology and Director of the Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University.He is the editor of numerous books and the general editor of the Journal of Religion & Society.

GAIL S. RISCH is a lecturer in theology and a researcher in the Center for Marriage and Family at Creighton University.