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Differences Matter—Sometimes

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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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  1. Andrew M. Greeley, Why Can’t They Be Like Us? (New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1971).

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  2. Evelyn Kaye, Crosscurrents: Children, Families and Religion (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1980), pp. 15–30.

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  3. Ibid., p. 18.

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  4. Ibid., p. 19.

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  5. Ibid., p. 20.

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  6. Ibid., p. 24.

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  7. Ibid., p. 27.

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  8. Ibid., p. 28.

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  9. 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.

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  10. Alberoni, Falling in Love, p. 35.

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  11. Edward Shils, Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), p. 34.

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  12. Ibid., p. 96.

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© 1985 Egon Mayer

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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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