Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Derosas, Renzo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), van Poppel, Frans (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Religion.; History.; Sociology.; Demography.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Social Sciences.; History, general.; Religious Studies, general.; Sociology, general.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

The impact of religion on family and reproduction is one of the most fascinating and complex topics open to scholarly research. The linkage between family and religion has received no systematic treatment on a comparative basis, either in the social sciences or in historical studies. This book provi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Theoretical and analytical approaches to religious beliefs, values, and identities during the modern fertility transition
• Religion, family, and fertility: What do we know historically and comparatively?
• Religious differentials in marital fertility in The Hague (Netherlands), 1860–1909
• Stemming the tide. Denomination and religiousness in the Dutch fertility transition, 1845–1945
• Family limitation among political Catholics in Baden in 1869
• The evolution of religious differences in fertility: Lutherans and Catholics in Alsace, 1750–1860
• State institutions as mediators between religion and fertility: A comparison of two Swiss regions, 1860–1930
• Between identity and assimilation: Jewish fertility in nineteenth-century Venice
• The religious claim on babies in nineteenth-century Montreal
• Religious diversity and the onset of the fertility transition: Canada, 1870–1900
• Religion and the decline of fertility: Conclusions.