Mixed and Matched - Interreligious Courtship and Marriage in Northern Ireland

Drawing on detailed interviews with Catholic-Protestant couples in Northern Ireland, this book examines how couples marry across group boundaries in the context of violent social conflict. Challenging existing theoretical assumptions about intermarriages, Mixed and Matched looks at how deviant relationships are formed and how the wider social environment reacts to them. Contents: The Northern Irish Context; Patterns of Interreligious Courtship I; Patterns of Interreligious Courtship II; Getting Married: Rules, Decisions, and Change; Aspects of Married Life; Concluding Reflections.

About the author

Raymond M. Lee is a Lecturer in Sociology at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.

Summary

Drawing on detailed interviews with Catholic and Protestant couples in Northern Ireland, this book examines how couples marry across group boundaries in the context of violent social conflict. It also looks at deviant relationships and how the wider social environment reacts to them.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond M Lee, Raymond M. Lee, Raymond Murray Lee, Lee Raymond M.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.1993
• EAN: 9780819184801
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-8480-1
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Class, Ethnicity, Gender & the Democratic Nation S.; Class, Ethnicity, Gender & the Democratic Nation S.
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Social groups, Northern Ireland, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships, Social groups, communities and identities