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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148584603321

Autore

Snelling Lauraine

Titolo

The second half : a novel / / Lauraine Snelling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Boston ; ; Nashville : , : FaithWords, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4555-8616-1

1-4555-8615-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages)

Classificazione

FIC042000FIC044000FIC045000

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Grandparents

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Welcome -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Chapter Twenty-Nine -- Chapter Thirty -- Chapter Thirty-One -- Chapter Thirty-Two -- Chapter Thirty-Three -- Also by Lauraine Snelling -- Praise for Lauraine Snelling -- Reading Group Guide -- Newsletters -- Table of Contents -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

"Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling shares a heartfelt story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren.  Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone University. They've already been making plans to travel, spend limitless hours in the garden, and Ken is looking forward to working on his woodworking and fishing with his grandchildren. It's what they deserve after years of



careful planning.  But things begin to unravel when Ken learns that office politics are about to destroy his department. Can he really just leave, abandoning the work he spent a lifetime achieving? Mona is eager to build her event planning business with Ken's help, but rather than supporting her, he expresses concern that the stress of the work will send her back into the depression she struggles with.  Then, just days before Ken's last official day of work, their son, a Special Forces officer in the Army, learns he's being immediately deployed on a six-month mission in Pakistan. Since his wife left him, the only people he trusts to care for his two young children are his parents. In an instant, everything Ken and Mona spent their lives planning changes, and they will need to find strength, both physical and mental, to become parents once more. This is not the second half they wanted, and when their son fails to contact them as planned, they struggle to trust that it is God's plan, not theirs, that matters most"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838306703321

Autore

Stiles Erin E

Titolo

Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century : A Global Perspective

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-9788-2909-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Collana

Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

Altri autori (Persone)

YakinAyang Utriza

GiunchiElisa

Bernard-MaugironNathalie

EssopFatima

Issaka-ToureFulera

LandryJean-Michel

SchulzDorothea

DialloSouleymane

SteenbergRune

Disciplina

297.5/77

Soggetti

Divorce (Islamic law)

Divorce - Religious aspects - Islam

Husband and wife (Islamic law)

Marriage - Religious aspects - Islam

Separation (Islamic law)

RELIGION / General



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First- Century Practice -- Part One. State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations -- 1. Divorce by khulʿ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority -- 2. Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary -- 3. Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa -- Part Two. Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing -- 4. Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: Divorce on Grounds of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Indonesian Religious Courts -- 5. “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”: Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce in Accra, Ghana -- 6. Undoing Marriage in Lebanon: Divorce within and beyond Family Courts -- Part Three. Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies -- 7. Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali -- 8. A “Much-Married Woman” Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China -- 9. The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India -- Conclusion: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century shows the wide range of Muslim experiences in marital disputes and in seeking Islamic divorces. For Muslims, having the ability to divorce in accordance with Islamic law is of paramount importance. However, Muslim experiences of divorce practice differ tremendously. The chapters in this volume discuss Islamic divorce from West Africa to Southeast Asia, and each story explores aspects of the everyday realities of disputing and divorcing Muslim couples face in the twenty-first century. The book’s cross-cultural and comparative look at Islamic divorce indicates that Muslim divorces are impacted by global religious discourses on Islamic authority, authenticity, and gender; by global patterns of and approaches to secularity; and by global economic inequalities and attendant patterns of urbanization and migration. Studying divorce as a mode of Islamic law in practice shows us that the Islamic legal tradition is flexible, malleable, and context-dependent.