Format:
1 online resource (348 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783374070534
Content:
The family is humanity’s oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in many liberal lands. This volume gathers scholars from sociology, psychology, history, religion, ethics, law, and medicine from five continents to analyze the complex nature and place of the family in character formation and human flourishing. The chapters study the impact of catechesis, schooling, work, and discipline on the development of individual moral agency and responsibility. They document the critical roles of family love, trust, fidelity, and story-telling in shaping the moral character of all family members from infancy to old age. They describe effective strategies of resistance and resilience for family members who face abuse, divorce, death, chauvinism, racism, and homophobia. And several chapters challenge modern arguments and policies that aim to flatten if not abolish the marital family, even while they call for family law reforms. Contributions by Enola G. Aird, Helen Alvaré, Robert N. Bellah, Margaret Jane Brining, Michael J. Broyde, Marcia Bunge, Stephen Carter, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Robyn Fivuush, Patrick Hornbeck, Andreas Kruse, Nadia Marais, Gordon Mikoski, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Patrick Parkinson, Katja Patzel-Mattern, Sabina Pauen, Stephen G. Post, Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, and Thomas Xutong Qu.
Note:
Online resource; title from title screen (viewed March 28, 2022)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783374070527
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The impact of the family Leipzig : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2022 ISBN 9783374070527
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3374070523
Language:
English
Subjects:
Psychology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
;
Familie
;
Charakterbildung
;
Sittliche Erziehung
;
Werterziehung
;
Christliche Erziehung
;
Religionssoziologie
;
Familie
;
Resilienz
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Witte, John 1959-
Author information:
Welker, Michael 1947-
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