Sacred Practices and Family Processes in a Jewish Context: Shabbat as the Weekly Family Ritual Par Excellence

Marks, Loren D.; Hatch, Trevan; Dollahite, David C.

doi:10.1111/famp.12286

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“…Putnam and Campbell () documented several ways that religion unifies and divides Americans politically and socially. We have found similar effects in the impact of religion on marriages and families (Marks & Dollahite, ; Marks, Hatch, & Dollahite, in press). Religion can promote disharmony with family members and others resulting from religious belief, identity, obligations, and choices and may divide one from those outside the faith or from those within the faith with different views or approaches to the faith.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework Of a Dynamic System Of Dualitiessupporting

confidence: 71%

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Why Religion Helps and Harms Families: A Conceptual Model of a System of Dualities at the Nexus of Faith and Family Life

Dollahite

Marks

Dalton

2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Evidence suggests that religion can both help and harm families. We posit that a central reason for these divergent outcomes is a system of dualities at the nexus of religion and family. We propose a conceptual framework of a dynamic system of religious and relational dualities. We propose eight dualities: (a) transcendent and mundane spiritual experiences may affect families, (b) families may experience God as a close confidant and an authority figure, (c) religion in families may involve accepting and refusing actions, (d) religion in families may include religious expectations and relational compensators, (e) religion in families may generate and address relational struggles, (f) religion in families may be relationally divisive and unifying, (g) religion in families may bring perplexing mysteries and profound meanings, and (h) religion in families may be a transforming and a maintaining influence. We discuss how these dualities lead to outcomes that help and harm families.

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Section: Conceptual Framework Of a Dynamic System Of Dualitiessupporting

confidence: 71%

“…Religion in families is also a maintaining influence that entails abiding truths, timeless rituals, and enduring traditions that promote relational stability. Some Jewish participants discussed Pesach (Passover) or Shabbat as rituals that are millennia old (Marks et al, in press). …”

Section: Conceptual Framework Of a Dynamic System Of Dualitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Religion Helps and Harms Families: A Conceptual Model of a System of Dualities at the Nexus of Faith and Family Life

Dollahite

Marks

Dalton

2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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“…One leading family scholar, Bill Doherty, has theorized that three dimensions-inclusion, control and intimacy-lie at the heart or "core" of healthy family interactions (Doherty et al 1991, p. 227). Marks, Dollahite, and Hatch (Marks et al 2017) have noted each of these dimensions at work in the sacred family practice of Shabbat among Jewish families, opening the door to questions regarding possible parallels in other faiths, including Islam.…”

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A Qualitative Study of Ramadan: A Month of Fasting, Family, and Faith

Alghafli¹,

Hatch

Rose

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Islam is a major world religion and the Muslim population is one of the fastest growing religious populations in the Western world, including in the United States. However, few research studies have examined the lived religious experience of U.S. Muslim families. Much of the attention on Islam among researchers and the media tends to be on controversial aspects of the religion. The purpose of this paper is to examine the unique religious practice of the month-long fast of Ramadan, especially its perceived role on marital and familial relationships from an insider’s perspective. Content analysis of in-depth, qualitative interviews of twenty diverse Shia and Sunni Muslim families living in the United States (N = 47 individuals) yielded several emergent themes. This study presents and explores data on the focal theme: “fasting brings us closer together.” These data suggest that Ramadan serves a sacred, unifying, and integrating purpose for many of the 47 practicing Muslim mothers, fathers, and youth in this study. Meanings and processes involved in Ramadan and family relationships are explored and explained. Implications and applications of the research findings are discussed and some potential directions for future research are outlined.

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“…Studies on these consequences analyze the correlations between familial religiosity and disciplinary practices (Bartkowski and Wilcox 2000), educational attainments (Danso et al 1997), and sermon influence on familial life (Gershoff et al 1999). In some studies, shared, familial religious practices are posited as a cohesive mechanism (Marks et al 2017;Chelladurai et al 2018;Dollahite and Marks 2009). In applied scholarship, social workers are recommended to be more attentive to familial religion and spiritual practices (Godina 2014).…”

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Deconversion, Sport, and Rehabilitative Hope

Shoemaker

2019

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This article, based on qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, explores three types of on-the-ground rehabilitative hope supplied by sport for many post-evangelicals within the upper Bible Belt region traversing through the process of deconversion. First, sport is an often-cited space that is identified as broadening social networks, leading to initial questioning of inherited religiosity. Second, sport offers a level of amelioration of relational fissures caused by religious shifts away from evangelicalism. Last, this research indicates that post-evangelicals highly value spaces for discussions of social justice, and athletic activism offers symbolic solidarity. Thus, sport and deconversion can be intertwined for Southern post-evangelicals. In the end, I argue that the triangulation of deconversion, hope, and sport within a Southern context creates a way of understanding the changing Southern ethos and pathos demarcated by a shifting away from a conservative Protestantism historically dominant in the region.

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Sacred Practices and Family Processes in a Jewish Context: Shabbat as the Weekly Family Ritual Par Excellence

Cited by 22 publications

References 27 publications

Why Religion Helps and Harms Families: A Conceptual Model of a System of Dualities at the Nexus of Faith and Family Life

Why Religion Helps and Harms Families: A Conceptual Model of a System of Dualities at the Nexus of Faith and Family Life

A Qualitative Study of Ramadan: A Month of Fasting, Family, and Faith

Deconversion, Sport, and Rehabilitative Hope

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