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Author: Kathleen E. Jenkins
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.508kg
ISBN: 9780813563473
ISBN 10: 081356347
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 12 June 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A thoughtful and smart examination of how religious communities shape the emotion work involved in ending intimate life partnerships, this well-researched ethnography illuminates the therapeutic turn in contemporary American religion and expands our understanding of the religion-family interface. --Penny Edgell author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society In reading Sacred Divorce, one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing. --Margarita A. Mooney author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora In reading Sacred Divorce, one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing. --Margarita A. Mooney author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora In reading Sacred Divorce , one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing. --Margarita A. Mooney author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora (08/23/2013)
A thoughtful and smart examination of how religious communities shape--Penny Edgell author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society (02/11/2014)
Jenkins artfully constructs a powerful analysis of how contemporary divorce experiences are transformed from potentially shaming events into opportunities for spiritual growth that are imbued with sacred meanings. -- American Journal of Sociology A thoughtful and smart examination of how religious communities shape the emotion work involved in ending intimate life partnerships, this well-researched ethnography illuminates the therapeutic turn in contemporary American religion and expands our understanding of the religion-family interface. --Penny Edgell author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society In reading Sacred Divorce, one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing. --Margarita A. Mooney author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora Sacred Divorce offers a remarkable work of cultural sociology that reveals how religious efforts to sacralize divorce reflect broader cultural tensions about individualism within religion and marriage. -- Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
In reading Sacred Divorce , one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing. --Margarita A. Mooney author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora (08/23/2013)
Author Information
KATHLEEN E. JENKINS is an associate professor and chair of the department of sociology at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Awesome Families: The Promise of Healing Relationships in the International Churches of Christ (Rutgers).
