Introduction 1. for Examples of These Types of Media Stories, See Joseph Berger, “Interfaith Marriages Stir Mixed Feelings, T
Notes Introduction 1. For examples of these types of media stories, see Joseph Berger, “Interfaith Marriages Stir Mixed Feelings,” The New York Times (Aug. 4, 2010), http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04 /us/04interfaith.html?_r=1, accessed Aug. 4, 2010; Marion L. Usher, “Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky: Religion and Interfaith Marriage,” The Washington Post , (Aug. 4, 2010), http:// newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/07 /chelsea_clinton_and_marc_mezvinsky_religion_and_interfaith _marriage.html?hpid=talkbox1, accessed Aug. 10, 2010. 2. These observations are based upon a cursory analysis of blogs from people commenting on the news regarding the Clinton-Mezvinsky marriage. 3. See Richard Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 1–22. 4. See Alex B. Leeman, “Interfaith Marriage in Islam: An Examination of the Legal Theory Behind the Traditional and Reformist Positions,” Indiana Law Journal (Spring 2009): 743–771. 5. See Dana Lee Robert, Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); Hugh McLeod, ed., World Christianities (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 6. I use the term “religious intermarriage” broadly and generically to refer to interreligious, interfaith, mixed, and/or exogamous mar- riage—terms widely used to refer to the phenomenon of marriage between individuals who identify with different religious beliefs and practices. 7. Maurice Fishberg, Jews, Race, and Environment (New Brunswick, NJ: Translation Publishers, 2006, c.1911), 221; Paul R. Spickard, Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), 165. 174 NOTES 8. James A. Brundage, Sex, Law, and Marriage in the Middle Ages (Brookfield, VT: Variorum/Ashgate Publishing Company, 1993), 26–27.
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