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Religion and Family in a Changing Society PRINCETON STUDIES IN CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY Editors:Paul DiMaggio,Michèle Lamont, Robert Wuthnow,Viviana Zelizer A list oftitles in this series appears at the back ofthe book. Religion and Family in a Changing Society Penny Edgell pr inceton universit y press pr inceton and oxford Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press,41 William Street,Princeton,New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom:Princeton University Press,3 Market Place,Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY All Rights Reserved Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Edgell,Penny,1963- Religion and family in a changing society / Penny Edgell. p. cm.—(Princeton studies in cultural sociology) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN-13:978-0-691-08674-3 (cl.)—ISBN-13:978-0-691-08675-0 (pb.:alk.paper) ISBN-10:0-691-08674-5 (c1.:alk.paper)—ISBN-10:0-691-08675-3 (pb.:alk.paper) 1. Family—Religious life—New York (State) 2. Church work with families—New York (State) 3. New York (State)—Religious life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. BV4526.3.E33 2006 306.6'09747—dc22 2004058631 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Minion Printed on acid-free paper.∞ pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States ofAmerica 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 We live in the description ofa place, and not in the place itself. Wallace Stevens CONTENTS List ofTables ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter One Contested Changes—“Family Values”in Local Religious Life 1 Chapter Two Religious Involvement and Religious Institutional Change 27 Chapter Three Religion,Family,and Work 45 Chapter Four Styles ofReligious Involvement 67 Chapter Five “The Problem with Families Today...” 94 Chapter Six The Practice ofFamily Ministry 125 Chapter Seven Religious Familism and Social Change 146 Appendix Choices 167 Notes 175 References 195 Index 207 TABLES Tables 1.1. Changes in Families and Households,United States,1950–2000 17 3.1. Religious Involvement by Family Household Type 47 3.2. Family Church Attendance 48 3.3. Family Disruption,Recombination,and Religious Involvement 54 3.4. Men—Average Hours per Week on Household Tasks by Church Attendance 60 3.5. Women—Average Hours per Week on Household Tasks by Church Attendance 63 4.1. Social Embeddedness and Rhetorics ofReligious Involvement 76 4.2. Religious Involvement Rhetorics and Attitudes about Gender, Family,and Religion 78 4.3. Rhetorics and Religious Participation,Identity,and Beliefs 81 4.4. Religious Involvement Rhetorics and Church Attendance (Monthly or More) 85 4.5. Religious Involvement ofThose Using Different Combinations ofRhetoric 87 5.1. Rhetorical Structure ofPastors’Talk about Changes in the Family 99 5.2. Family Rhetoric—Official Views 117 6.1. “Standard”Gender and Life-Stage Programming 131 6.2. Innovative Family Programming 134 A.1. Religion and Family Project Data 169 A.2. Comparing Religion and Family Project Congregational Census to National Congregations Study Sample 172 A.3. Census Data 2000,United States and Four Focus Communities 173
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