Interfaith Marriage in America

PART I: HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS INTERMARRIAGE: A STORY OF LIBERATION AND SHIFTING BOUNDARIES Seeds of Liberation: Theological and Legal Doors Open in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries An Era of Intra-Religious Marriage: Societal Doors Begin to Open in the Nineteenth Century An Era of Interreligious Marriage: Societal Doors Open in the Twentieth Century PART II: CONTEMPORARY INTERMARRIAGES: A STORY OF NEGOTIATION, INNOVATION, AND THE DEFIANCE OF BOUNDARIES Boundaries and Parameters: Normative Boundaries among Religions and between the Religious and Secular Stories of Contemporary Intermarriages: Paradox and Ambiguity An Era of Interfaith Marriage: The Defiance of Boundaries Transforming Religion and Christianity: The Emergence of Interfaith Space