Howard M. Bahr is professor in the department of sociology at Brigham Young University. Kathleen S. Bahr is associate professor (ret.) in the department of marriage, family, and human development at Brigham Young University

Howard and Kathleen Bahr have given us new and exciting ways to think about critically important but often neglected issues in the family. With an intellectual depth and rigor rarely found in the social sciences, they have challenged the ways scholars too often have viewed family relationships. In addition, they have plowed rich new ground in the understudied and underappreciated domains of love, sacrifice, and transcendence. This book is beautifully and carefully written and deserves wide readership by scholars and students in the social and behavioral sciences.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Families and Self-SacrificeChapter 3 Family TranscendenceChapter 4 LoveChapter 5 Family SpiritualityChapter 6 Family WorkChapter 7 Emotion WorkChapter 8 Family Work as RitualChapter 9 Close, Warm, and Particular

Howard M. Bahr is professor in the department of sociology at Brigham Young University. Kathleen S. Bahr is associate professor (ret.) in the department of marriage, family, and human development at Brigham Young University

Howard and Kathleen Bahr have given us new and exciting ways to think about critically important but often neglected issues in the family. With an intellectual depth and rigor rarely found in the social sciences, they have challenged the ways scholars too often have viewed family relationships. In addition, they have plowed rich new ground in the understudied and underappreciated domains of love, sacrifice, and transcendence. This book is beautifully and carefully written and deserves wide readership by scholars and students in the social and behavioral sciences.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Families and Self-SacrificeChapter 3 Family TranscendenceChapter 4 LoveChapter 5 Family SpiritualityChapter 6 Family WorkChapter 7 Emotion WorkChapter 8 Family Work as RitualChapter 9 Close, Warm, and Particular

Howard M. Bahr is professor in the department of sociology at Brigham Young University. Kathleen S. Bahr is associate professor (ret.) in the department of marriage, family, and human development at Brigham Young University

Howard and Kathleen Bahr have given us new and exciting ways to think about critically important but often neglected issues in the family. With an intellectual depth and rigor rarely found in the social sciences, they have challenged the ways scholars too often have viewed family relationships. In addition, they have plowed rich new ground in the understudied and underappreciated domains of love, sacrifice, and transcendence. This book is beautifully and carefully written and deserves wide readership by scholars and students in the social and behavioral sciences.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Families and Self-SacrificeChapter 3 Family TranscendenceChapter 4 LoveChapter 5 Family SpiritualityChapter 6 Family WorkChapter 7 Emotion WorkChapter 8 Family Work as RitualChapter 9 Close, Warm, and Particular