Below is a list of all book reviews, in alphabetical order by author, that have been published in Marriage, Families & Spirituality since vol. 30 (2024).

For the list of books that have been reviewed before 2024, click here.

A

AKHTAR, Rajnaara / NASH, Patrick / PROBERT, Rebecca:  Cohabitation and Religious Marriage: Status, Similarities and Solutions,  Bristol: Bristol University Press,  2020.-  XII, 176 (Jayaseelan SAVARIARPITCHAI, Rome in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

B

BALFOUR, Andrew / CLULOW, Christopher / THOMPSON, Kate (eds.): Engaging Couples : New Directions in Therapeutic Work with Families, London: Routledge, 2019. -  XXVIII, 214 (Pui-ling Chau, Hong Kong in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

BENEKER, Jeffrey / TSOUVALA, Georgia (eds.): The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World, Madison, WI:  University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. -  X, 269 (Michael Tilly, Tübingen in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

BERGER, Klaus: Ehe und Himmelreich : Frau und Mann im Urchristentum, Freiburg i. Br.: Herder Verlag,  2019. -  304 (Gisbert Greshake, Freiburg i.Br. in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

BØGGILD JOHANNSEN, Kristine / PETERSEN, Jane Hjarl (eds.): Family Lives : Aspects of Life and Death in Ancient Families, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2019. - 341 (Petri Assenga, Nairobi in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

BRAUNSCHWEIG, Michael / NOTH, Isabelle / TANNER, Mathias (Hg.):  Gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe und die Kirchen: Zum Umgang mit homosexuellen Partnerschaften, Zürich:  TVZ, 2021. -  188 (Gerhard Schreiber, Darmstadt in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

BREMER, Jörg (Hg.): Ein Kelch für zwei: Zur ökumenischen Debatte um die Kommunion bei konfessionsverbindenden Paaren, Ostfildern: Verlagsgruppe Patmos,  2019. -  192 (Rainer Gottschalg , Bonn in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

C

CAVAGNARI, Gustavo: La famiglia "Chiesa Domestica": Soggetto e oggetto dell'azione evangelizzatrice al servizio del regno di Dio ,  Rome: Libreria Ateneo Salesiana,  2015. -  256 (Julian Paparella, Rome in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

D

DEL MISSIER, Giovanni / MASSARO, Roberto / CONTINI, Paolo: Per il bene possibile della coppia: Sessualità, dilemmi etici e vita reale,  Bologna:  Dehoniane,  2019. -  144 (Giulia Paola Di Nicola, Teramo in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

DICASTERE POUR LES LAÏCS, LA FAMILLE ET LA VIE: Itinéraires catéchuménaux pour la vie conjugale; Préface du Pape François,  Perpignan:  Artège, 2023. -  110 (Christian Mignonat, Lyon in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

DIEFENBACH, Stefan / LANG-RACHOR, Lucia / WALBELDER, David / WOLF, Barbara (Hg.): Paare.Riten. Kirche: Wenn eine katholische Trauung nicht möglich ist: liturgische Beispiele gesammelt und kommentiert, Paderborn: Bonifatius,  2020. -  235 (Martina Kreidler-Kos, Osnabrück in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

DOCKERY, David S. / STONESTREET, John (eds.): Life, Marriage, and Religious Liberty : What Belongs to God, What Belongs to Caesar – Essays for the Tenth Anniversary of The Manhattan Declaration, New York-Nashville: Post Hill Press, 2019. -  XXII, 202 (Petri Assenga, Nairobi in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

E

ENGH, Line Cecilie (ed.): The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: Images, Impact, Cognition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,  2019. -  354 (David Dawson Vásquez, Rome in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

F

FELDHAUS, Michael / SCHLEGEL, Monika: Familiensoziologie,  Baden-Baden: Nomos,  2023. -  222 (Richard Hartmann, Bensheim in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

FISCHER, Veronika / GEBERT, Bärbel / KRUSE, Elke et al.: Didaktik der Familienbildung (Kindheitspädagogik und Familienbildung 7), Frankfurt/Main: Wochenschau,  2024. - 355 (Patrik C. Höring, Trier in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

G

GELLER, Jaclyn: Moving Past Marriage: Why We Should Ditch Marital Privilege, End Relationship-Status Discrimination, and Embrace Non-marital History, Hoboken, NJ: Cleis Press,  2023. -  373 (Ray Temmerman, Winnipeg, Canada in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

GLAHN, Sandra / BARNES, C. Gary (eds.): Sanctified Sexuality: Valuing Sex in an Oversexed World,  Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel,  2020. -  407 (David Dawson Vasquez, Rome in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

GRILLO, Andrea:  Cattolicesimo e (omo)sessualità: Sapienza teologica e benedizione rituale,  Brescia: Scholé-Morcelliana,  2022. -  224 (Francesco Pesce, Treviso in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

H

HARTMANN, Lisa:  Eine Lobby für Familien?: Interessenvertretung und Lobbyarbeit durch Familienverbände im politischen System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,  Darmstadt: wbg Academic, 2023. -  470 (Marion Bayerl, Ingolstadt in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

HATFIELD, Elaine / RAPSON, Richard L. / PURVIS, Jeanette: What's Next in Love and Sex: Psychological and Cultural Perspectives,  New York: Oxford University Press,  2020, -  283 (Frederick Parrella, Santa Clara, CA in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

HENDERSON, Aneeka Ayanna: Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,  2020. -  222 (John A. Dick, Leuven in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

HORSCH, Silvia / KISI, Melahat / KLAUSING, Kathrin / ABDEL-RAHMAN, Annett: Der Islam und die Geschlechterfrage: Theologische, gesellschaftliche, historische und praktische Aspekte einer Debatte, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. -  296 (Geert Faseur, Antwerpen in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

HYLAND, Lucy:  Marital Separation in Contemporary Ireland: Women’s Experiences, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016. - XII, 229 (Elizabeth Butterfield, Wolverhampton, UK in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

HU, Julie Xuemei / NASH, Shondrah Tarrezz: Marriage and the Family : Mirror of a Diverse Global Society, 1st Edition, New York-London:  Routledge, 2019. -  766 (Ray Temmerman, Winnipeg, MB in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

I

J

K

KELLY, Michael Bernard: Christian Mysticism’s Queer Flame: Spirituality in the Lives of Contemporary Gay Men, London: Routledge, 2019. -  XII, 243 (John A. Dick, Leuven in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

L

LEMONS, Katherine: Divorcing Traditions : Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. - X, 232 (Thou Ngaoni, Leuven) in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

LEVERING, Matthew: Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage: Human Marriage as the Image and Sacrament of the Marriage of God and Creation, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books,  2020. -  XVI, 301 (Christopher M. O'Brien, Hyattsville, MD in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

LINDEMANN, Danielle J.: Commuter Spouses : New Families in a Changing World, Ithaca, NY: ILR Press,  2019. - X, 182 (Celia Y.S. Tsui, Hong Kong in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

LÖHNIG, Martin (Hg): Kulturkampf um die Ehe: Reform des europäischen Eherechts nach dem Großen Krieg, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. - VIII, 522 (Rémy Lebrun, Berne-Fribourg in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

M

N

O

ORTIZ, Miguel A. (a cura di): La missione evangelizzatrice della famiglia, Roma: Edusc,  2024. - 112 (Sneha Pallickel, Lugano in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

P

PALAZZO, Nausica: Legal Recognition of Non-Conjugal Families: New Frontiers in Family Law in the US, Canada and Europe,  Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2021. -  248 (John A. Dick, Leuven in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

Q

R

RECZEK, Rin / BOSLEY-SMITH, Emma: Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents,  New York, NY: New York University Press, 2022. -  VIII, 211 (Jason Steidl, New York in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

S

SCHMIEGELT, Christophe: Die historische Entwicklung der Eheverbote wegen Verwandtschaft und Schwägerschaft vom Reichspersonenstandsgesetz bis zum Eheschließungsrechtsgesetz (1875 bis 1998) (Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte 210 ), Berlin:  Duncker & Humblot,  2023. -  388 (Rémy Lebrun, Berne/Fribourg in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

SCHNEIDER, Anne / SCHNEIDER, Nikolaus: Vom Leben und Sterben: Ein Ehepaar diskutiert über Sterbehilfe, Tod und Ewigkeit, im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Thielmann, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft,  2019. -  153 (Julia van der Linde, Bochum in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

SILL, Bernhard / KNIEPS-PORT LE ROI, Thomas (Hg.):  Vom Glück der Freundschaft,  St. Ottilien: EOS Verlag,  2020. - 603 (Kristina Kieslinger, Waldkirch in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

SMITH, Christian / RITZ, Bridget / ROTOLO, Michael: Religious Parenting : Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America, Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press,  2019. -  299 (Sahayadas Fernando, Rome in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

T

THEUKE, Theresia: Der Embryo und die Menschenwürde : Der Wandel des Menschenwürdebegriffes im Kontext bioethischer Debatten, [The Embryo and Human Dignity: Changing Notions of Human Dignity in the Context of Bioethical Debates], (Wertewandel im 20. Jahrhundert; 4), Berlin-Boston, MA:  Walter de Gruyter,  2019. -  375 (Julia van der Linde, Bochum in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

U

V

VITZ, Paul C. (ed.): The Complimentarity of Men and Women: Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, and Art,  Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2021. -  XII, 243 (Adrian Thatcher, Plymouth in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

W

WADHWA, Toolika: Negotiating Identity and Religion : Young Adults in Inter-religious Families, Oxford: Routledge, 2020. -  XXII, 261 (Wendy M. Louis, Singapore in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

WALSHE, Sebastian: Understanding Marriage & Family: A Catholic Perspective,  Waterloo, ON: Arouca Press, 2020. -  XVI, 206 (Randall Woodard, Dade City, FL in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

WEINANDY, Thomas G. (ed.): Faith and the Sacraments: A Commentary on the International Theological Commission's: The reciprocity of Faith and Sacraments in the Sacramental Economy, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. -  IX, 190 (Tom McLean, Leuven in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

WERNER, Stephen A.:  Daniel Lord, SJ, the Restless Flame: Thinking Big in a Parochial World!,  Independently published, 2021. -  354 (William L. Portier, Emmitsburg, MD in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/1 (2024)

WITTE Jr., John / WELKER, Michael / PICKARD, Stephen (eds): The Impact of the Family: On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies,  Leipzig:  Evangelische Verlaganstalt,  2022. -  347 (Adrian Thatcher, Plymouth in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

WITTE Jr., John: Church, State and Family: Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,  2019. -  434 (Ray Temmerman, Winnipeg in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

WOLLBOLD, Andreas:  Taufe – Firmung – Eucharistie Trauung: Grundlagen und Gestaltung der Sakramentenpastoral,  Regensburg:  Friedrich Pustet,  2020. -  476 (Richard Hartmann, Bensheim in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

X Y Z

YOUNG Jr., William E.: Marriage Annulments under Pope Francis,  Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications,  2018. -  31 (Thou Ngaoni, Leuven) in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)

ZEHELEIN, Eva-Sabine / CAROSSO, Andrea / ROSENDE-PEREZ, Aida (eds.): Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives (Culture and Theory 221),  Bielefeld:  transcript, 2020. -  213 (Jayaseelan SAVARIARPITCHAI, Roma in: Marriage, Families & Spirituality 30/2 (2024)