For Better, For Worse

The Ethics of Divorce after Marriage Equality

Natalie E. Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

140 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0186-1 (ISBN)

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For Better, for Worse: The Ethics of Divorce after Marriage Equality examines the persistent notion that heterosexual marriage is in crisis in the United States. Natalie E. Williams proposes an ethical response that challenges the political and religious rhetoric of shame around divorce.

For Better, for Worse discusses the shame narratives tied to divorce, rooted in Christian theologies of marriage and U.S. political landscapes of marriage rights and regulation. Using interdisciplinary methods, Natalie E. Williams investigates the current conflict between social practices that normalize divorce and religious and political rhetorical narratives that continue to shame those who divorce. Williams's work seeks to understand current attitudes and policies related to divorce and to shape Christian ethical responses that resist the use of shame, relying instead on commitments to truth-telling and a cultivation of “shamelessness” to support flourishing across a spectrum of family forms.

Natalie E. Williams teaches religion at Saint Peter’s Preparatory school.

Introduction: Why Divorce Matters Now: Origins of the U.S. “Divorce Crisis”
1. The Theo-ethical History of Marriage and the U.S. Divorce Landscape
2. Shame in the Moral Frameworks of Marriage Regulation
3. Fetishizing the Family: Shame in Christian Divorce Doctrines
4. U.S. Divorce Policies and “Family Values” Rhetoric
5. Queer Resistance and Gay Assimilation: Marriage (and Divorce) Equality
6. Resisting Shame and Reimagining Family Success

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 230 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-9787-0186-1 / 1978701861
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-0186-1 / 9781978701861
Zustand	Neuware