Sentence examples for marital practices from inspiring English sources

In Between Christ and Caliph, Lev E. Weitz examines the multiconfessional society of early Islam through the lens of shifting marital practices of Syriac Christian communities.

What is stunning is that the official version of his polygamist life has now been published by the Mormon church itself, an institution that in recent decades has gone out of its way to downplay the unconventional marital practices of its early male founders, not least Smith himself.

But the historical and cultural variation in marital practices has prompted some philosophers to argue that marriage is a 'family resemblance' concept, with no essential purpose or structure (Wasserstrom 1974).

History shows considerable variation in marital practices: polygyny has been widely practiced, some societies have approved of extra-marital sex and, arguably, recognized same-sex marriages, and religious or civil officiation has not always been the norm (Boswell 1994; Mohr 2005, 62; Coontz 2006).

"In my research of Joseph Smith's marital practices, I noticed that he first was marrying married women, and then he shifted to marrying singles who were often much younger," said Stephen Fleming, a Mormon with a PhD in religious studies at UC Santa Barbara, who blogs at The Juvenile Instructor.

As the woman who was closest to Prophet Muhammad (he died in her arms), Aisha was in a unique position to relate intimate conversations she had with her husband, from marital sexual practices to how to cleanse oneself properly for ritual ablutions.

Abstract of a new paper (with colleagues in New Zealand, Germany, and Oxford) on the evolution of post-marital residence practices in several large language families.

Ilan Hirschfeld, national leader of the marital dissolution practice group at Marcum, an accounting firm, said postnuptial agreements generally solidify the prenuptial agreement and make the separation of assets cleaner.

Human societies show significant variation in post-marital residence practices.

At least three factors may contribute to the discrepant findings of prior research comparing contemporary patterns of genetic variation and post-marital residence practices.

Unmarried adolescents in Tanzania experience several pre-marital sexual practices that include penetrative and non-penetrative.