Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions

Edited by Don Browning, M. Christian Green, and John Witte Jr.

April, 2009
Paper, 496 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13117-9
$32.50

Cloth, 496 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13116-2
$70.50

"An excellent resource for scholars and teachers." — Dana Fritz Cates, Religious Studies Review

"Impressive... [and] well-edited." — Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative & Emergent Religions

"A valuable resource for furthering critical debate." — Karen-Marie Yust, Theology Today

"An extraordinary compendium of original texts and balanced analysis of how the world's great religions deal with sex, marriage and family life. For social scientists and therapists whose systematic learning about religion may have ended before graduate school, this is the best single source for understanding how our most influential religions arrived at their contemporary perspectives on our most intimate human bonds." — William J. Doherty, University of Minnesota, Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart

Related Subjects

• Comparative Religion
• Reference

About the Author

Don S. Browning is the Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of more than forty books, including Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do About It. M. Christian Green is senior fellow and senior lecturer in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and author of a forthcoming title on fatherhood in the Western tradition. John Witte Jr. is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He has published twenty-four books, including The Teachings of Modern Christianity on Law, Politics, and Human Nature.

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