Concepts and Terminology in Interreligious Marriage
Improved conceptualization of interreligious marriage and greater precision of terminology are steps toward improved theories of intermarriage. In a sociological conceptual framework, interreligious marriage is one type of interaction between religious groups, subsocieties, or societies that are und...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1970]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Terminology
B Intermarriage B Conceptualization B Judaism B Hostility B Protestantism B Catholicism B Social Interaction B sociology of religion |
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| Summary: | Improved conceptualization of interreligious marriage and greater precision of terminology are steps toward improved theories of intermarriage. In a sociological conceptual framework, interreligious marriage is one type of interaction between religious groups, subsocieties, or societies that are under constraint not to mingle on an intimate basis because of differences in values. Interreligious marriage threatens values, security, and continuity of a religion, and is held in check by an endogamous eligibility system that extends to the incorporation of children of intermarried couples into one or the other religion. Internally, intensity of endogamy is related to the degree of independence of the religious group from the larger society. Relationships between religious societies are conceptualized as in-group/out-group relationships. Analysis of interreligious marriage has often been inexact due to limitations of data to coarse categories of religion, such as Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant; to the failure to go beyond formal church affiliations of members in search of their degree of religiosity; and to inexact use of certain terms, such as intermarriage, endogamy, exogamy, homogamy, and heterogamy. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1384577 |