{"product_id":"sacred-divorce-religion-therapeutic-culture-and-ending-life-partnerships-hardback-9780813563473","title":"Sacred Divorce; Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships (Hardback) 9780813563473","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReligion, Therapeutic Culture, and Ending Life Partnerships\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathleen E. Jenkins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813563473\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 June 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e236 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.472 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"In reading \u003ci\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Margarita A. Mooney (author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Penny Edgell (author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Journal of Sociology) \u003cdiv\u003e\"In reading \u003ci\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Margarita A. Mooney (author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Penny Edgell (author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion) \u003cdiv\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Journal of Sociology)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Even in our world of redefined life partnerships and living arrangements, most marriages begin through sacred ritual connected to a religious tradition. But if marriage rituals affirm deeply held religious and secular values in the presence of clergy, family, and community, where does divorce, which severs so many of these sacred bonds, fit in?  Sociologist Kathleen Jenkins takes up this question in a work that offers both a broad, analytical perspective and a uniquely intimate view of the role of religion in ending marriages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than five years, Jenkins observed religious support groups and workshops for the divorced and interviewed religious practitioners in the midst of divorces, along with clergy members who advised them. Her findings appear here in the form of eloquent and revealing stories about individuals managing emotions in ways that make divorce a meaningful, even sacred process. Clergy from mainline Protestant denominations to Baptist churches, Jewish congregations, Unitarian fellowships, and Catholic parishes talk about the concealed nature of divorce in their congregations.  \u003ci\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e describes their cautious attempts to overcome such barriers, and to assemble meaningful symbols and practices for members by becoming compassionate listeners, delivering careful sermons, refitting existing practices like Catholic annulments and Jewish divorce documents (gets), and constructing new rituals.           \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith attention to religious, ethnic, and class variations, covering age groups from early thirties to mid-sixties and separations of only a few months to up to twenty years, \u003ci\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e offers remarkable insight into individual and cultural responses to divorce and the social emotions and spiritual strategies that the clergy and the faithful employ to find meaning in the breach.  At once a sociological document, an ethnographic analysis, and testament of personal experience, \u003ci\u003eSacred Divorce\u003c\/i\u003e provides guidance, strategies and answers to readers looking for answers and those looking to heal.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cdiv\u003e Introduction \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Chapter 1 Social Shame and Religious Tools \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Chapter 2 Divorce Work as Cultural Strategy \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Chapter 3 Solitary Work Through Community \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Chapter 4 Cautious Clergy \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Chapter 5 Rich Lived Practice \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Chapter 6 Religious Emotion and Multiple Family Forms \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Appendix on Methods \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Notes \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e References \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Index \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559335358744,"sku":"9780813563473","price":85.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sacred-divorce-religion-therapeutic-culture-and-ending-life-partnerships-hardback-9780813563473","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}