Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Defining the “Good Family” in Local Congregations 165 newer family schema that is more open to alternative family forms and work ...

166 Penny Edgell The significance of this family model is not simply in how widespread it was in popular culture, the sentimenta ...

Defining the “Good Family” in Local Congregations 167 sexuality (Glock 1993; Hunter 1991). Missing from this analysis is any sus ...

168 Penny Edgell The Religion and Family Project The following discussion is based on data collected between 1998 and 2000 in fo ...

Defining the “Good Family” in Local Congregations 169 The Good Family in Rhetoric and Practice Ideology is a matter of both rhet ...

170 Penny Edgell Table 13.1.Family Rhetoric^1 Liberal Moderate Conservative Protestant^2 Protestant Protestant Catholic N2221591 ...

Defining the “Good Family” in Local Congregations 171 critical of their own tradition’s history of dealing with family change, s ...

172 Penny Edgell This sentiment was echoed in pastor focus groups by mainline Protestant ministers and some Catholic priests, as ...

Defining the “Good Family” in Local Congregations 173 Table 13.2.Programming by Faith Tradition Liberal Moderate Conservative Pr ...

174 Penny Edgell they do not equate the ideal family with any particular family form. They are the most likely to be affirming o ...

Defining the “Good Family” in Local Congregations 175 having more programming for dual-earner couples, for gay and lesbian membe ...

176 Penny Edgell “Standard package plus” (70–75 percent). This is the largest group, and it is made up of congregations that hav ...

Defining the “Good Family” in Local Congregations 177 Churches in the 1950s were organized largely around the Ozzie and Harriet ...

178 Penny Edgell of rationality, and multiple logics of action, within the field (cf. Friedland and Alford 1991). Of course, ups ...

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Religiousness and Spirituality Trajectories and Vital Involvement in Late Adulthood Michele Dillon and Paul Win ...

180 Michele Dillon and Paul Wink conversation (Marty 1993; Roof 1999a, Chapter 11, this volume; Wuthnow 1998). There is a lot of ...

Religiousness and Spirituality in Late Adulthood 181 women and 47 percent are men. In late middle adulthood, 59 percent of the p ...

182 Michele Dillon and Paul Wink 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 30’s 40’s 50’s 70’s Age Religiousness Spirituality Figure 14.1Mean Changes in ...

Religiousness and Spirituality in Late Adulthood 183 How are we to interpret the increased religiousness of the IHD participants ...

184 Michele Dillon and Paul Wink conducive to spiritual growth. McFadden (1996) argues that spirituality may be espe- cially mea ...