Marriage

Marriage is a relationship between individuals which has formed the foundation of the family for most societies. Marriage can include legal, social, and religious elements. In western societies, marriage has traditionally been understood as social contract between a man (husband) and a woman (wife), while in other parts of the world polygamy has been the most common form of marriage, usually in the form of polygyny (a man taking several wives) but occasionally in the form of polyandry (a woman taking several husbands). In some western ...

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Marriage: Encyclopedia II - Marriage - Romantic marriage and pragmatic marriage Marriage - Pragmatic marriage. A Pragmatic (or 'Arranged') marriage that is facilitated by formal procedures of family or group politics. A responsible authority sets up or encourages the marriage. The authority could be parents, family, a religious figure or a consensus. The former two often start the process with informal pressure, social pressure, whilst the latter two often start the process with a formal system or statement. In both cases, the authority has a compelling veto over the marriage, and this syste ...

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Marriage: Encyclopedia - Banns of marriage

The banns of marriage or, simply "the banns", (from an Old English word meaning "to summon") are the public announcement from the pulpit that a marriage is going to take place in that church between two specified persons at a specified time. Their purpose is to allow anyone to come to the wedding to raise any legal impediment to it—such an impediment might be a prior marriage (or pre-contract or betrothal, those being legally the same as a marriage), or a vow of celibacy, or the couple's being related within the prohibited degree of kinship, or lack of consent—to prevent marriages that are leg ...

Marriage: Encyclopedia - Boston marriage

In the 19th century, Boston marriage was a term used for households where two women lived together, independent of any male support. Whether these were lesbian relationships—in the sexual sense—is debated. The likelihood is that some were and some were not. Today, the term is sometimes used when referring to two women living together who are not in a sexual relationship. The term "Boston marriage" came to be used, apparently, after Henry James' book The Bostonians detailed a marriage-like relationship between two wom ...

Marriage: Encyclopedia - Celestial marriage

Celestial marriage - Sealing. Celestial marriage is an instance of the LDS doctrine of sealing. Following celestial marriage, not only are the couple sealed as husband and wife, but children born into the marriage are also sealed to that family. In cases where the husband and wife have been previously married civilly and there are already children from their union, the children accompany their parents to the temple and are sealed to their parents following the marriage ceremony. Celestial ma ...

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Marriage: Encyclopedia - Child marriage

Child marriage is a practice in which the parents of a small child (even infants) arrange a future marriage with another child's parents. The children are betrothed or promised to each other. Often the two children never even meet each other until the wedding ceremony, when they are both of an acceptable marriageable age -- which age differs based upon custom. In some cultures, the age is at or even before the onset of puberty. Child marriage has been practiced in many cultures for centuries. It continues to this day, although ...

Marriage: Encyclopedia - Marriage vows

Wedding vows are promises made by the bride and groom to each other during a wedding ceremony. In Western culture, these promises have traditionally included the notions of unselfishness ("love, comfort, keep"), faithfulness ("forsaking all others"), unconditionality ("for richer or for poorer", "in sickness and in health"), and permanence ("as long as we both shall live", "until death do us part"). See also marriage. Other related archivesceremony, faithfulness, marriage, wedding

Marriage: Encyclopedia - Covenant marriage

A covenant marriage is a modern concept of marriage considered to be a cultural and political response to no-fault divorce. Couples in a covenant marriage agree to obtain counseling before marrying, and accept more limited grounds for divorce. A primary purpose of covenant marriage is to provide both spouses the security and motivation to work hard to make theirs a good marriage, knowing that the other is committed to the same purpose. A covenant is an unconditional agreement, stronger than a contract. Whereas a contract typica ...

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Marriage: Encyclopedia - Common-law marriage

Common-law marriage (or common law marriage), sometimes called informal marriage or marriage by habit and repute is, historically, a form of interpersonal status in which a man and a woman are legally married. The essential elements of a common law marriage are that a man and woman, both of whom are of legal age to contract a statutory marriage, mutually consent to live together ...

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Marriage: Encyclopedia - Arranged marriage

An arranged marriage is a marriage in which the marital partners are chosen by others based on considerations other than the pre-existing mutual attraction of the partners. Arranged marriage - Social origins. Noble families, especially reigning families, long used arranged marriage to consolidate their strengths and to join their kingdoms. The arranged marriage is also the marriage concluded with the help of a middleman, once frequent in less cultivated social classes. In some countries it is the man ...

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Marriage: Encyclopedia - Jewish view of marriage

Judaism considers marriage to be the ideal state of existence; a man without a wife, or a woman without a husband, are considered incomplete. Jewish view of marriage - Classical customs. In traditional Jewish society, from the era of the Talmud up to the enlightenment, social association of the sexes was usually restricted (tzeniut). In Orthodox Jewish communities these social restrictions are still in force. Jewish view of marriage - Betrothal from the Mishnah and Talmud ...

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Jewish view of marriage - Conservative and Reform changes

Jewish view of marriage - Marriage in Israel

Marriage: Encyclopedia - Catholic marriage

In the theology of Catholicism, marriage is an inseparable bond between a man and a woman, created by human contract and ratified by divine grace. It is one of the seven sacraments. The nature of the conventant requires that the two participants be one man and one woman, that they be free to marry, that they willingly and knowingly enter into a valid marriage contract, and that they validly execute the performance of the contract. On the exact definition of each of these steps hinge all the arguments and technical points ...

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Marriage: Encyclopedia - Buddhist view of marriage

While Buddhist practice varies considerably among its various schools, Marriage is one of the few concepts specifically mentioned in the context of Sila (Buddhist behavior discipline). One of the five precepts that even lay practitioners are expected to follow to the best of their abilities - specifically the third - is a promise to abstain from sexual misconduct. While it is generally understood that what constitutes "misconduct" from a Buddhist perspective is widely dependent from the local cultural reality (e.g. is polygamy "miscon ...

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