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The bishops have been repeating familiar criticisms of commercial society. A clergyman in an industrial centre counter‐asserts the viciousness of the polity: the citizen who pays his taxes under threat of fine or imprisonment is not practising Christian charity.

The Western tradition has always cherished the family as an essential foundation of a just and orderly society, and thus accorded it special legal and religious protection. Christianity embraced this teaching from the start, and many of the basics of Western family law were shaped by the Christian theologies of nature, sacrament, and covenant. This volume introduces readers to the enduring and evolving Christian norms and teachings on betrothals and weddings; marriage and divorce; women's and children's rights; marital property and inheritance; and human sexuality and intimate relationships. The chapters are authoritatively written but accessible to college and graduate students and scholars, as well as clergy and laity. While alert to the hot button issues of sexual liberty today, the contributing authors let the historical figures speak for themselves about what Christianity has and can contribute to the protection and guidance of our most intimate association.

Introduction :Migration and public discourse in world Christianity /Afe Adogame,Raimundo Barreto,Wanderley P. da Rosa --Religious identities and transnational religious practices of second-generation Ghanaian migrants in Amsterdam /Edmond Akwasi Agyeman,Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei --Migrations and religious configuration among "Evangelicals" in Latin America's northern triangle in the first decade of the twenty-first century /Eduardo Albuquerque --Transnationalism, religious participation, and civic responsibility among African immigrants in North America /Moses Biney --Migrating theopolitics : the effect of undocumented parishioners on the pastoral theology of Latin American Evangelicals in the United States /Joāo Chaves --Displaced continuity : Juche, Christianity, and subjectivity of North Korean migrants /Shalon Park --Identity, religion, and resistance of Russian people in Brazil /Sonia Maria de Freitas --When women leave : examining the intersection of family, faith and personal development in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women in New York city /Janice A. McLean-Farrell --Storied people : the intergenerational power of story in the lives of immigrants /Christine J. Hong --"Speak to me, Lord" : seeking God's intervention in times of duress among Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town /Henrietta M. Nyamnjoh --From "neighbourhood" to "proximity" : an opportunity for human fulfilment /Fabio Baggio --Xenophilia or xenophobia : toward a theology of migration /Luis N. Rivera-Pagán --A people of God who remembers : theological reflections on a "refugee crisis" /Gioacchino Campese --Central American migration as the way of the cross : Ignacio Ellacuría's notion of the "crucified peoples" for theological reframing of the migrant experience /Francisco Pelaez-Diaz --Zumbi of the Pentecostals : migrations and Pentecostal modulations observed at the Zumbi dos Palmares settlement in Campos dos Goytacazes /Fabio Py --The diaspora of Brazilian Pentecostalism /David Mesquiati de Oliveira.

Medievalism in the American context -- Science, religion, and education: -- The legal and cultural conflicts over the teaching of evolution in the United States -- Flag fetish: creating a secular icon in a modern context -- Religion, law, and criminal justice -- Christianity and liberal individualism: the battle over control of the human body -- Religion, culture, and democratic values