Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States - Softcover

9780813547190: Religion, Families, and Health: Population-Based Research in the United States

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813547199 ISBN 13: 9780813547190

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2010

Religion is a major social institution in the United States. 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 area of study is still in its early stages of development, scattered across multiple disciplines, and of uneven quality. To date, no book has featured both reviews of the literature and new empirical findings that define this area for the present and set the agenda for the twenty-first century. 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.

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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 St. 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.

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