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Trade Review"In reading
Sacred Divorce, one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing."
-- Margarita A. Mooney * author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora *
"A thoughtful and smart examination of how religious communities shape the emotion work involved in ending intimate life partnerships, this well-researched ethnography illuminates the therapeutic turn in contemporary American religion and expands our understanding of the religion-family interface." -- Penny Edgell * author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society *
"
Sacred Divorce offers a remarkable work of cultural sociology that reveals how religious efforts to sacralize divorce reflect broader cultural tensions about individualism within religion and marriage." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *
"Jenkins artfully constructs a powerful analysis of how contemporary divorce experiences are transformed from potentially shaming events into opportunities for spiritual growth that are imbued with sacred meanings." * American Journal of Sociology *
"In reading
Sacred Divorce, one is so moved by an astounding number of beautifully written sentences and gripping quotes that one feels one has gone through divorce, therapy, recovery and healing."
-- Margarita A. Mooney * author of Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora *
"A thoughtful and smart examination of how religious communities shape the emotion work involved in ending intimate life partnerships, this well-researched ethnography illuminates the therapeutic turn in contemporary American religion and expands our understanding of the religion-family interface." -- Penny Edgell * author of Religion and Family in a Changing Society *
"
Sacred Divorce offers a remarkable work of cultural sociology that reveals how religious efforts to sacralize divorce reflect broader cultural tensions about individualism within religion and marriage." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *
"Jenkins artfully constructs a powerful analysis of how contemporary divorce experiences are transformed from potentially shaming events into opportunities for spiritual growth that are imbued with sacred meanings." * American Journal of Sociology *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Social Shame and Religious Tools Chapter 2 Divorce Work as Cultural Strategy Chapter 3 Solitary Work Through Community Chapter 4 Cautious Clergy Chapter 5 Rich Lived Practice Chapter 6 Religious Emotion and Multiple Family Forms Appendix on Methods Notes References Index
