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Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World by Frans van Poppel, Renzo Derosas (auth.), Renzo Derosas, Frans van Poppel (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Apart from providing a wealth of descriptive information on family life and fertility in different national and religious settings, the major strength of the book lies in its conceptual insights. The book will attract and stimulate readers at the advanced undergraduate or at the graduate level in history, religious studies, women’s studies, family studies, social demography, sociology, and anthropology due to its subject matter (moral issues related to fertility decline and family change played an important role in processes like secularisation, and religious secessions in the19 th and 20 th century), its analytical approach (all chapters make use of micro-level data on family and family size and use comparable statistical methods specifically

Who reads Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World?

Author

Frans van Poppel, Renzo Derosas (auth.), Renzo Derosas, Frans van Poppel (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402051906

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Sociology