Christiantown, U.S.A. (Haworth Marriage and the Family) (Haworth Marriage and the Family)

Are Christian families more - or less - strong than other families? How important is sexual satisfaction to marital happiness? What impact does the arrival of children have on a marriage? How does income affect marital satisfaction? What pressures confront employed wives and their families and how content are these women with their marriages?To accurately assess the influence of religion on the marriages of churchgoers, this book, first published in 1990, considers the significance of other important forces as well - level of education, job satisfaction, income, sex life, patterns of decision making, coping strategies, and the demands of parenting. While most studies have been content to assess religion's impact by looking at church membership or church attendance, this book looks at several facets of religiosity in an effort to understand more clearly just how and when religion affects marriage quality and whether its impact is positive or negative.A final concern of the book is to assess how the current generation of couples is adapting to intergenerational changes such as increased occupational status, more egalitarian patterns of decision-making, and smaller families. It examines the role modifications and coping strategies that couples are employing to deal with these changes and with the demands that accompany them. 1. Christiantown, USA Richard Stellway 2. Ecstasy and Holiness: Counter Culture and the Open Society Frank Musgrove 3. The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life Roy Wallis 4. God's Blueprints: A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects John McKelvie Whitworth 5. A House Divided: Protestantism, Schism and Secularization Steve Bruce 6. Jehovah's Witnesses: The New World Society Marley Cole 7. Pray TV: Televangelism in America Steve Bruce 8. Religion, Aging and Health: A Global Perspective Edited by William M. Clements 9. Religion and Advanced Industrial Society James A. Beckford 10. Religion and Social Class: The Disruption Years in Aberdeen A. Allan MacLaren 11. Religion and the Family: Youth and the Gang Instinct Geoffrey Hoyland 12. The Religion of Ethnicity: Belief and Belonging in a Greek-American Community Gary A. Kunkelman 13. The Religious Roots of American Sociology Cecil E. Greek 14. Rosicrucianism in America Edited with an introduction by J. Gordon Melton 15. Social Science and the Cults: An Annotated Bibliography John A. Saliba 16. Sociology of Religion Joachim Wach 17. Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer 18. Virtuous Pagans: Unreligious People in America Thomas H. Davenport 19. Voices from the Gods: Speaking with Tongues David Christie-Murray This book, first published in 1974, argues that the counter culture is not the outcome of alienation, but of opportunity, being the result of a new generational consciousness which has characterised societies of the West since the 1950s. Its roots lie in economic expansion and population movement: that are cited in the decline of religiousness. To accurately assess the influence of religion on the marriages of churchgoers, this book, first published in 1990, considers the significance of many important forces, including level of education, job satisfaction, income, sex life, patterns of decision making, coping strategies, and the demands of parenting. This set collects together in 19 volumes a wealth of texts on Sociology of Religion. An invaluable reference resource, it contains classic books on a wide range of topics, including: religion and violence, religion and family life, religion and society, culture and class. Richard Stellway. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 162-171) And Index.