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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Don S Browning; M Christian Green; John Witte |
| ISBN: | 023113116X 0231505191 9780231505192 9780231131162 |
| OCLC Number: | 61151645 |
| Description: | xxix, 461 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Judaism / Michael S. Berger -- Introduction -- The Hebrew Bible -- The Elephantine marriage contract -- Hellenistic Jewish philosophy in the wisdom of Ben Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) -- The Damascus document of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Josephus on marriage law -- Mishnah on procreation, marriage, and divorce -- The Babylonian Talmud -- Aggadic Midrash on marriage and family -- The Babylonian Talmud on marital sex -- The Babylonian ordinance from the academy on divorce -- The ordinances of Rabbi Gershom (The Light of the Exile) -- Medieval marriage contracts from the Cairo Geniza -- Love poetry from the Golden Age of Spain -- The order of the Get -- Maimonides on sex -- Jewish mysticism on marriage and sex -- The Book of the pious of medieval Germany -- "The epistle on holiness" ('Iggeret Ha-qodesh') -- Exchange between Napoleon and the Jewish "Sanhedrin" on issues of marriage -- Contemporary developments in Jewish marriage contracts -- Reform opinion on patrilineal and matrilineal descent -- 2. Christianity / Luke Timothy Johnson, Mark D. Jordan -- Introduction -- Creation and fall in the book of Genesis -- The Greco-Roman context -- Hellenistic Jewish moral instruction -- Gospels of Matthew and Luke -- Paul's letters to the Corinthians and Ephesians -- Apocryphal Christian texts -- Augustine of Hippo -- John Chrysostom -- Peter Lombard -- The Fourth Lateran Council -- Thomas Aquinas -- Mechthild of Magdeburg -- Martin Luther -- Anglican Book of common prayer (1549) -- John Calvin -- The Council of Trent -- George Fox -- A contemporary critique of sexual ethics -- A womanist critique of family theology -- A contemporary liturgy for same-sex unions -- 3. Islam / Azizah al-Hibri, Raja̕ M. El Habti -- Introduction -- Creation and the identity of origin of women and men -- The fall from the garden and gender equality -- The marriage contract -- Consent to marriage -- Mahr : the obligatory marital gift -- Other stipulations in the marriage contract -- Marital relations -- Polygamy -- Marital conflict -- Divorce -- Sexual ethics -- Rights within the family -- 4. Hinduism / Paul B. Courtright -- Introduction -- Rig Veda 10.85 : the marriage hymn -- The Gṛhya-sutras : the wedding ceremony -- Laws of Manu -- The Kāmasūtra -- Divine marriage : Śiva and Pārvatī -- The karma of marriage : the king's wife, the Brahmin's wife, and the ogre -- A contemporary Hindu marriage ceremony -- "Counting the flowers," a short story / Chudamani Raghavan, translated from the Tamil by the author -- 5. Buddhism / Alan Cole -- Introduction -- The beginning of the world -- The joys of ascetism -- Married life versus life of the ascetic -- Songs by Buddhist women -- The conversion of the nun, Paṭācārā -- The Buddha accepts his aunt, Gotamī, as a nun -- The Buddha's renunciation of his family -- Confusion over the Buddha as a fertility god -- Buddhism as a threat to the Indian family -- The Buddha's advice for laity -- An early Buddha lineage -- East Asian Buddhism : an overview -- The sutra on the filial son -- The ghost festival sutra -- The sutra on the profound kindness of parents -- The Blood Bowl sutra -- 6. Confucianism / Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- Introduction -- The Book of poetry (Shi jing) -- The Analects (Lunyu) of Confucius -- Mencius on filial piety -- Historical incidents from the Zuo zhuan -- Record of ritual -- The Record of ritual of the elder Dai -- The Classic of filial piety -- Lives of model women -- Admonitions for women -- Filial sons -- Mr. Yan's family instructions -- The classic of filial piety for women -- Yuan Cai on concubines -- Zhu Xi on family and marriage -- Sexual offenses in the code of the Qing Dynasty -- Advice to local officials on handling sexual offenses -- Qing legal cases concerning sexual offenses -- Chen Duxiu on the way of Confucius and modern life -- Feng Youlan on the philosophy at the basis of traditional Chinese society. |
| Other Titles: | Sex, marriage, & family in world religions |
| Responsibility: | edited by Don S. Browning, M. Christian Green, John Witte, Jr. |
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