Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World
The impact of religion on family and reproduction is one of the most fascinating and complex topics open to scholarly research. The linkage between family and religion has received no systematic treatment on a comparative basis, either in the social scien
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Renzo Derosas Frans van Poppel
Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World
Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World Edited by
Renzo Derosas Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and
Frans van Poppel Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute The Hague, The Netherlands
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ISBN-10: 1-4020-5189-1 (HB) ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-5189-0 (HB) ISBN-10: 1-4020-5190-5 (e-book) ISBN-13: 1-4020-5190-6 (e-book)
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Cover illustration: Eighteenth-century drawing, representing Jewish and Catholic flats along the Venetian Ghetto’s borderline, symbolizing proximity and separation of different religious groups. Venice, State Archive, Cattaver, 274.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This volume results from a project for which the editors had taken the initiative in October 2003. In the course of that project, they organized a workshop with the title Culture and the decline of fertility: religious norms, education, and the changing status of women in Venice, Italy, on October 15-16, 2004 at Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice Financial support for the workshop was provided by the Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice; the European Doctorate in Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice; the Comune di Venezia, Assessorato alla Cittadinanza delle donne e Cultura delle differenze; the Provincia di Venezia, Assessorato alla Cultura; the Venezia Servizi Territoriali Ambientali and Venice International University. We would like to express our gratitude to Geraldine Ludbrook of Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice for the English editing of the text, to Michela Tombel, research assistant at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice for the revision of the manuscript, to Evelien Bakker, Associate Publishing Editor of Springer Science+Business Media for her help in the publication of this volume, to Jacqueline van der Helm of NIDI for her assistance in preparing the manuscript and to Mark van ’t Walderveen of Nadorp Druk b.v. (Poeldijk, Netherlands) for preparing the camera-copy. Special mention has to be made of the generous support given to us by Loredana Aurelio Celegato, at the time of the workshop Assessore alla Cittadinanza delle donne e Cultura delle differenze of the Comune di Venezia. This volume could be published thanks to the financial support of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) at T
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