Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons An encyclopedia of marriage rites, traditions, and beliefs from around the world, ranging from ancient practices to contemporary ceremonies.
* Dozens of photographs of weddings and wedding artifacts * Numerous illustrations, including the table plan from Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management * A thorough introduction that explores marriage both as a rite and as a ceremony |
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Contents
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From Henna to Honeymoons C | 49 |
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From Henna to Honeymoons E | 111 |
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From Henna to Honeymoons O | 207 |
From Henna to Honeymoons P | 209 |
From Henna to Honeymoons Q | 225 |
From Henna to Honeymoons R | 229 |
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From Henna to Honeymoons T | 267 |
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From Henna to Honeymoons J | 173 |
From Henna to Honeymoons K | 181 |
From Henna to Honeymoons L | 183 |
From Henna to Honeymoons M | 187 |
From Henna to Honeymoons N | 201 |
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From Henna to Honeymoons Y | 299 |
From Henna to Honeymoons Z | 303 |
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 44 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 68 - For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Page 69 - Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Page 69 - In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Page 69 - To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
Page 18 - I publish the Banns of Marriage between M. of , and N. of . If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it.
Page 68 - But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Page 69 - For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
Page 83 - If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons Bell's advanced economic geographies |
| Author | George Monger |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1576079872, 9781576079874 |
| Length | 327 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Human Geography |
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