1 Introduction Part One: Religion and
Family Life Outcomes
2 Religion and the Timing of First Births in the United States
3 Religion and Child Rearing
4 Religion and Adolescent Sexual Behavior
5 The Influence of Religion on Ties between the Generations
6 Religion and Family Values Reconsidered
7 From Generation to Generation
8 Religious Intermarriage and Conversion in the United States
9 Childhood Religious Denomination and Early Adult Asset Accumulation
10 Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women's
Educational Attainment and Wages
11 Religion, Family, and Women's Employment among Muslim and Christian
Arab Americans Part Two: Religion and
Health Outcomes
12 Religion and Depressive Symptoms in Late Life
13 Religion and Physical Health among U.S. Adults
14 Religious Involvement and Mortality Risk among Pre-Retirement Aged
U.S. Adults
15 Religious Attendance and Cause-Specific Mortality in the United
States
16 Race, Religious Involvement, and Health
17 Jewish Identity and Self-Reported Health
18 Religion, Sexually Risky Behavior, and Reproductive Health: The
Mormon Case
19 Religion and the New Immigrants Part Three: Looking Ahead
20 The Religious Demography of the United States
21 Future Directions in Population-Based Research on Religion, Family
Life, and Health in the United States
Contributors
Amy
M. Burdette and Teresa A. Sullivan; Christopher G. Ellison and Robert
A. Hummer; Duane F. Alwin and Jacob L. Felson; Evelyn Lehrer; Jen’nan
Ghazal Read; John P. Bartkowski and Xiaohe Xu; Linda J. Waite and
Alisa C. Lewin; Lisa A. Keister; Lisa D. Pearce; Marc A. Musick and
Meredith G.F Worthen; Mark D. Regnerus; Neal Krause; Robert A. Hummer,
Maureen R. Benjamins, Christopher G. Ellison, and Richard G. Rogers;
Valarie King
Keywords
religion and family, religion and health, religion
and demography, sociology of religion, religion in the United States,
religion and population studies, demography of religion, religious
groups in America, marriage and parenthood, health and mortality
Subtitle:
Population-Based Research in the United States Edited and
with an introduction by Christopher G. Ellison and Robert A. Hummer Subject:Sociology,
Religion Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4719-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4718-3 Pages:
488 pages Publication Date: April 2010
Praise:
"This excellent compilation of
population-based research on the relationships of religion to family
life and health establishes a research agenda for decades to
come."-Kenneth C. Land, John Franklin Crowell Professor of Sociology
and Demography, Duke University
"A
truly unique and important contribution to our growing knowledge about
the relationship between religion, family life, and health. An
important work deserving a wide reading."-Christian Smith, Wm. R.
Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
"A fascinating array of research that is well-grounded in key
theoretical debates and draws insightful conclusions. This volume does
a wonderful job of setting the agenda for research on religion and its
impact on other aspects of American life."Robert V. Robinson, Indiana
University
"Two of the top social institutions on anyone's list - the family and
religion - both exert considerable influence on the well-being of their
members. Although there are long histories of research in each of
these separate domains, here for the first time is a consideration of
their joint impact, by leaders in the field of population health and
the scientific study of religion."-Ellen Idler, Emory University Description:
While the scientific community has
experienced a resurgence in the idea that there are important linkages
between religion and family life and religion and health outcomes, this
study is still in its early stages, scattered across multiple
disciplines, and of uneven quality. To date, no book has featured both
reviews of the literature and new empirical findings. Religion,
Families, and Health fills this void by bringing together leading
social scientists who provide a theoretically rich, methodologically
rigorous, and exciting glimpse into a fascinating social institution
that continues to be extremely important in the lives of Americans. About the Author:
CHRISTOPHER G. ELLISON is the Elsie and
Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams Sr. Centennial Professor in the department of
sociology and a research associate of the Population Research Center at
the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or coauthor of
approximately one hundred journal articles and chapters on the topics
of religion and family life and religion and health in the United
States.
ROBERT A. HUMMER is a professor and chairperson in the department of
sociology and a research associate of the Population Research Center at
the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coauthor of Living and
Dying in the USA, winner of the 2002 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for
Distinguished Scholarship in Social Demography from the Population
Section of the American Sociological Association. Receive
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