The Social Ecology of Religion

by Tanner Reynolds, Vernon Reynolds, Ralph Tanner

Book Overview

What effect does the Islamic attitude toward abortion have upon the family size and growth of Muslim populations? How do the Sukuma people of Tanzania react to the birth of an abnormal child, and why do their reactions differ so radically from those of Roman Catholics in Pennsylvania? Why were one sixth of all brides in English rural parishes between the late sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries pregnant at marriage, and what does this tell us...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195069749
• ISBN13: 9780195069747
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"