The Family Handbook (Family, Religion, and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664256902 ISBN 13: 9780664256906

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998

Synopsis

This encyclopedic volume brings clarity and focus to a multitude of family issues. The expert contributors deal with practical and important questions, thereby providing information of significant usefulness to social workers, therapists, lawyers, ministers, and health-care professionals. Those who work with families will learn new techniques and see their efforts in a larger context. An extensive directory of family resources provides the reader with helpful and practical information.

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Herbert Anderson is currently Research Professor of Practical Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. He is the author or coauthor of over ninety articles and thirteen books, many of which are focused on integrating theology and family systems theory.

Don S. Browning is Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Religious Thought and Modern Psychologies and Reviving Christian Humanism: The New Conversation on Spirituality, Theology, and Psychology.

Ian S. Evison is Director of Research at the Alban Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. She has been a senior editor of Christianity Today and is currently a contributing editor for Books & Culture. She has written, cowritten, and contributed to several books, including The Psychology of Intergroup Relations, The Person in Psychology, After Eden, and Women and the Future of the Family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0664256902
• ISBN 13: 9780664256906
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 345
• Editor: Anderson Herbert, Browning Don S., Evison Ian S., Leeuwen Mary Stewart Van