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Drawing on extensive field work, personal interviews and focus groups in mainline, evangelical, and eastern Orthodox churches, Sally Gallagher examines what it is that draws women and men differently into different types of congregations.

Drawing on extensive field work, personal interviews and focus groups in mainline, evangelical, and eastern Orthodox churches, Sally Gallagher examines what it is that draws women and men differently into different types of congregations.

Drawing on fieldwork that spans nearly twenty years, this offers a rare portrayal of ordinary family life in Damascus, Syria. It explores how women draw on cultural ideals around gender, religion, and family to negotiate a sense of collective and personal identity. Emphasising the ability of women to manage family relationships, Gallagher highlights how personal and material resources shape women's choices and constraints concerning education,...

This volume provides a sociological and historical analysis of gender, family and work among evangelical Protestants. The study traces two lines of gender ideals from the Puritans to the Promise Keepers into the lives of ordinary evangelicals today.

Explores how the elderly help each other through formal and informal volunteerism. Based on a stratified sample of hundreds of individuals, this study assesses many dimensions of this care-giving, which is central to family and community ties. Age, sex and marital status are considered.