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Vows

The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2025
Threshold Editions (Verlag)
978-1-6680-2157-6 (ISBN)
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The story of our wedding vows—what they mean and why they still matter.
From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the “timely” (The New Yorker), “fascinating, and morally serious,” (The Wall Street Journal) story of our wedding vows—what they mean and why they still matter.

In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that “taking vows” is a synonym for getting married. So, it’s a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And there’s a reason for that. Marriage by vow presupposes free choice, and free choice makes a love-match possible. It is a very modern arrangement.

Vows is both a moving memoir of two marriages and an “illuminating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) meditation on marriage itself. Cheryl Mendelson tackles the sociology of commitment through our most traditional promises and shows why they endure. In considering the kind of marriage these vows entail, she helps answer some of life’s most urgent and personal questions: Could I, would I, or should I make these promises to someone? Using history and literature, the book describes the parameters of the behavior that traditional vows promise and, in doing so, answers a whole series of other questions: Why did wedding-by-vow arise only in the West? Why are they recited in weddings around the world today? Why have these vows lasted for nearly a thousand years? Why does the kind of marriage promised in the vows survive?

Cheryl Mendelson is a Harvard Law School graduate, a sometime philosophy professor, and a novelist (Morningside Heights and Love, Work, Children). In 1999, she authored the classic bestselling resource for every American household, Home Comforts. Born into a rural family in Greene County, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City with her husband.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 213 mm
Gewicht 207 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Partnerschaft / Sexualität
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-6680-2157-9 / 1668021579
ISBN-13 978-1-6680-2157-6 / 9781668021576
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