Interfaith Marriage in America

1. Introduction
Erika B. Seamon

Part I. History of Religious Intermarriage: A Story of Liberation and Shifting Boundaries

2. Seeds of Liberation: Theological and Legal Doors Open in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
Erika B. Seamon

3. An Era of Intra-religious Marriage: Societal Doors Begin to Open in the Nineteenth Century
Erika B. Seamon

4. An Era of Interreligious Marriage: Societal Doors Open in the Twentieth Century
Erika B. Seamon

Part II. Contemporary Intermarriages: A Story of Negotiation and Innovation

5. Definitions and Parameters: Normative Boundaries among Religions and between the Religious and Secular
Erika B. Seamon

6. Stories of Contemporary Intermarriages: Paradox and Ambiguity
Erika B. Seamon

7. An Era of Interfaith Marriage: The Defiance of Boundaries
Erika B. Seamon

8. Transforming Religion and Christianity: The Emergence of Interfaith Space
Erika B. Seamon

Avainsanat: Religious Studies, Biblical Studies, Sociology of Religion, Comparative Religion, Christianity