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Title Religion and the decline of fertility in the Western World / edited by Renzo Derosas and Frans van Poppel
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction / Frans van Poppel and Renzo Derosas -- Theoretical and analytical approaches to religious beliefs, values, and identities during the modern fertility transition / Katherine A. Lynch -- Religion, family, and fertility : what do we know historically and comparatively? / Calvin Goldscheider -- Religious differentials in marital fertility in The Hague (Netherlands), 1860-1909 / John Schellekens and Frans van Poppel -- Stemming the tide. Denomination and religiousness in the Dutch fertility transition, 1845-1945 / Jan Kok and Jan Van Bavel -- Family limitation among political Catholics in Baden in 1869 / Ernest Benz -- The evolution of religious differences in fertility : Lutherans and Catholics in Alsace, 1750-1860 / Kevin McQuillan -- State institutions as mediators between religion and fertility : a comparison of two Swiss regions, 1860-1930 / Anne-Françoise Praz -- Between identity and assimilation : Jewish fertility in nineteenth-century Venice / Renzo Derosas -- The religious claim on babies in nineteenth-century Montreal / Patricia Thornton and Sherry Olson -- Religious diversity and the onset of the fertility transition : Canada, 1870-1900 / Danielle Gauvreau -- Religion and the decline of fertility : Conclusions / David I Kertzer
Summary This book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Apart from providing a wealth of descriptive information on family life and fertility in different national and religious settings, the major strength of the book lies in its conceptual insights. The book will attract and stimulate readers at the advanced undergraduate or at the graduate level in history, religious studies, women's studies, family studies, social demography, sociology, and anthropology due to its subject matter (moral issues related to fertility decline and family change played an important role in processes like secularisation, and religious secessions in the 19th and 20th century), its analytical approach (all chapters make use of micro-level data on family and family size and use comparable statistical methods specifically suited for these kinds of data), and its theoretical orientation (the chapters explicitly focus on the variety of mechanisms via which religions had an effect on family life and fertility).; The book is truly cross-cultural, showing the similarities as well as the differences in the positions of the various churches on matters important for reproduction in Western Europe, the US and Canada in the period 1850-1950. The consideration of the causes of variations in family size in the past provides a refreshing perspective on contemporary effects of religion on reproductive behaviour and the family
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-299) and index
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In Springer e-books
Subject Religion and sociology.
Human reproduction -- Religious aspects.
Fertility, Human.
Religion and sociology -- Congresses
Human reproduction -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
Fertility, Human -- Congresses
sociology of religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
Human reproduction -- Religious aspects.
Fertility, Human.
Religion and sociology.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Fertility, Human
Human reproduction -- Religious aspects
Religion and sociology
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Poppel, F. W. A. van.
Derosas, Renzo, 1952-
LC no. 2007468205
ISBN 9781402051906
1402051905
1402051891
9781402051890
1280634820
9781280634826
6610634823
9786610634828