If You Marry Outside Your Faith: Counsel on Mixed Marriages, by James A. Pike (TPB, $1.50)
We have received another donation from the college. Included in it are quite a lot of religious books. I pulled out the most interesting ones to blog.
This book discusses mostly marriages between Protestants and Catholics, with some discussion of marriages with agnostics and Jews thrown in. I wonder about some of the statistics cited by the author regarding divorce and adultery. I agreed with the advice that the couple get to know both religious backgrounds before marriage. And the advice for them to seriously discuss how they will deal with religion before marrying, and how they will handle the issue after children enter the picture.
I ponder this whole matter remembering my mother's comment that she had had to give up her religion to marry my father. She was United Church of Christ, and Dad was American Baptist. Yet she considered her marriage in 1952 to be a mixed religion one, and even more so because Dad was going into the ministry. Few people, including myself, would now consider that to be the case.
Interesting to note is the difference of meaning of the term "mixed marriages", which now most likely means mixed racial marriage. Or am I wrong? What do you think of all this? Look for this book in the religion section, avail. 1/25.
