Families in the New Testament World

Families in the New Testament World
Author: Carolyn Osiek
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664255466

What was the family like for the first Christians? Informed by archaeological work and illustrated by figures, this work is a remarkable window into the past, one that both informs and illuminates our current condition. The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed and responsible analyses of the state of the American family from a religious perspective and provides practical assistance for the family's revitalization.

Bird Families of the World

Bird Families of the World
Author: David Ward Winkler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2015
Genre: Birds
ISBN: 9788494189203

This volume is a synopsis of the diversity of all birds. It distills the voluminous detail of the 17-volume Handbook of Birds of the World into a single book. Based on the latest systematic research and summarizing what is known about the life history and biology of each group, this volume is the best single-volume entry to avian diversity available.

Families Around the World

Families Around the World
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1771388072

This colorful cross section of families introduces readers to fourteen real children from around the world and the people they love the most, from Sanne in the Netherlands, who has two moms; to Gilad, whose parents and siblings live on a kibbutz with other families in Israel; to Ji Eun in South Korea, whose parents both work outside the home. An engaging book about different cultures and what they share: the importance of family, and the familiar ways people care for one another.

Handbook of World Families

Handbook of World Families
Author: Bert N. Adams
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2005
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780761927631

The Handbook of World Families clarifies and promotes a cross-cultural perspective on the family by an examination of 25 countries worldwide, with the same topics covered in parallel fashion for each. These topics include a brief demographic and historic description of the country, mate selection, child rearing practices, gender roles, family stresses and violence, divorce and remarriage, kinship, aging and death, and the family within the broader societal institutions including politics, economics, and religion.

Families in Many Cultures

Families in Many Cultures
Author: Heather Adamson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781429600194

Simple text and photographs present families from many cultures.

Families of a New World

Families of a New World
Author: Lynne Haney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317794354

From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an important collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an approved ideal of the family to further their own agendas.

Families

Families
Author: Uwe Ommer
Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780789310095

Portraits and profiles of children and their family life around the world.

Families in Today's World

Families in Today's World
Author: David Cheal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134241461

An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life. Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning in families to sexuality. David Cheal provides coverage of these topics by drawing on a variety of international material. Most of the studies focus on contemporary family life but Cheal also presents information on historical changes which have shaped family life as it is known today. This book an incredibly valuable teaching tool as it presents diversity in family patterns through thinking about family life from a global perspective.

Mixed Families in a Transnational World

Mixed Families in a Transnational World
Author: Josiane Le Gall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000484777

Offering a transnational perspective on the processes of identity transmission and identity construction of mixed families in various parts of the world, this book provides an overview of how local, national, global contexts and inter-group relations structure the development of specific forms of belonging and identification. Featuring nine rich ethnographic studies situated in geographic areas less covered by scholarship on mixed families such as Québec, Morocco, Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Philippines, Thailand and Israel, the book’s contributions reveal how families’ everyday lives are shaped by historical and sociopolitical contexts, as well as by transnational dynamics and mobility trajectories. The studies illustrate the context-specific realities that shape social definitions of mixedness—whether religious, national, cultural, ethnic or racial—at local and transnational levels. The articulation of local and transnational perspectives on mixed families will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, families, ethnicity, race and racism in the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, history, social work, international relations and global studies). The book will also be of interest to policymakers, as well as activists and practitioners working in organizations offering services to mixed individuals, migrants, and their families.

Families & Time

Families & Time
Author: Kerry Daly
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1996-09-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0803973411

What is family time? What value do we place on it? How many families today have time to be families? How do families view, use and seek to control time, and how successful are they at it? The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways: families changing through history; families experiencing the passage of time as they age over the life course; and families negotiating time for being together. Synthesizing these different concepts into a broad theory of how families understand time, Kerry J Daly examines time as a pervasive influence in the changing experiential world of families.