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I was riding uptown from an appointment in Greenwich Village, reading a journal article that included in its title the word “intermarriage.” Sitting next to me in the midday subway car was a young woman, thirtyish, casually dressed—jeans, loafers, a knapsack filled with books; probably a graduate student from New York University. She glanced over to what I was reading and gave a muffled but audible chuckle.
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Notes
Andrew M. Greeley, Why Can’t They Be Like Us? (New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1971).
Evelyn Kaye, Crosscurrents: Children, Families and Religion (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1980), pp. 15–30.
Ibid., p. 18.
Ibid., p. 19.
Ibid., p. 20.
Ibid., p. 24.
Ibid., p. 27.
Ibid., p. 28.
Harold T. Christensen and Kenneth E. Barber, “Interfaith versus Intrafaith Marriages in Indiana,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 29:3 (August 1967), pp. 461–469.
Alberoni, Falling in Love, p. 35.
Edward Shils, Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), p. 34.
Ibid., p. 96.
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Mayer, E. (1985). Differences Matter—Sometimes. In: Love & Tradition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6086-3_5
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