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Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite [Hardcover] Mendelson, Cheryl

Mendelson, Cheryl

Published by Simon & Schuster (2024)

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Book Description Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!. Seller Inventory # OTF-S-9781668021569

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Vows (Hardcover)

Cheryl Mendelson

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York (2024)

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. From the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the story of our wedding vowswhat they mean and why they still matter.In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that taking vows is a synonym for getting married. So, its a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And theres a reason for that. Marriage by vow presupposes free choice, and free choice makes a love-match possible. It is a very modern arrangement. Vows is both a moving memoir of two marriages and a thoughtful meditation on marriage itself. Cheryl Mendelson tackles the sociology of commitment through our most traditional promises and shows why they endure. In considering the kind of marriage these vows entail, she helps answer some of lifes most urgent and personal of questions: Could I, would I, or should I make these promises to someone? Using history and literature, the book describes the parameters of the behavior that traditional vows promise and, in doing so, answers a whole series of other questions: Why did wedding-by-vow arise only in the West? Why are they recited in weddings around the world today? Why have these vows lasted for nearly a thousand years? Why does the kind of marriage promised in the vows survive? The story of our wedding vowswhat they mean and why they still matter. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781668021569

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