About the Editor: Don S. Browning

The first Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Religious Studies at Emory University, he is a world-class scholar of practical theology and ethics. Since 1991, Browning has led the Religion, Culture, and Family Project at the University of Chicago that has yielded 15 new volumes, hundreds of scholarly articles and scores of public forums and conferences. In that role, he has raised more than $4 million in foundation grants for research, publications, and a major documentary film series. The most recent work, Marriage: Just a Piece of Paper?, was produced as a book and documentary film shown on public television across the United States. Browning has focused much of his research on the relation of religious thought, particularly theological ethics, to the social sciences. He has keen interests in psychoanalysis, object-relations theory, self-psychology and evolutionary psychology, and he has written on the cultural, theological, and ethical analysis of the modern psychologies.

Selected Publications

• "Adoption and the Moral Significance of Kin Altruism" in The Morality of Adoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspectives , William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005 
• American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy, Columbia University Press, 2006 
• "Asian American Confucianism and Children" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• Children and Childhood in World Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006 
• Christian Marriage and Modern Marriage Law, Cambridge University Press 
• "Christianity and the Rights of Children: An Integrative View" in The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and Human Rights 
• "Critical Familism, Civil Society, and the Law," , Vol. 32, No. 1 (2003): 313-330
• Does Christianity Teach Male Headship? The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004
• Equality and the Family: A Fundamental Practical Theology of Children, Mothers, and Fathers in Modern Societies, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 
• "Family Law and Christian Jurisprudence," October 25, 2007
• "Family Law and Christian Jurisprudence" in Christianity and Law: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2008 
• George W. Bush and the Sanctity of Marriage
• "Happily Ever After? Sex, Marriage, and Family in National and Global Profile," March 27, 2003
• "Hindu Children in the United States" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• "Immigrant Parochial Schools: Religion, Morality, Citizenship" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• "Introduction" in American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy, Columbia University Press, 2006 
• "Introduction" in Children and Childhood in World Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• "Introduction: Children and Childhood in American Religions" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• "Introduction: The Equal-Regard Family in Context" in The Equal-Regard Family and its Friendly Critics: Don Browning and the Practical Theological Ethics of the Family, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 
• "Judaism and Children in the United States" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• "Liberal Cautions on Same-Sex Marriage" in The Meaning of Marriage: Family, State, Market, and Morals 
• "Linda McClain's The Place of Families and Contemporary Family Law: A Critique from Critical Familism," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 56, No. 5 (2007): 1385-1405 
• "Mainline Protestants and Children" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• Marriage - Just a Piece of Paper?, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002
• Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do about It, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003
• "Native American Children and Religion" 
• "Q & A with the Experts: Don S. Browning"
• "Response" in The Equal-Regard Family and its Friendly Critics: Don Browning and the Practical Theological Ethics of the Family, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 
• Reweaving the Social Tapestry: Toward a Public Philosophy and Policy for Families, W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
• Sex, Marriage, & Family in World Religions, Columbia University Press, 2005 
• "Should the Convention be Ratified and Why?," October 21, 2005
• "Symposium, 'What's Wrong with Rights for Children?'," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2006): 1-240
• "The Future of Law, Religion, and the Family," Emory Law Journal, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2008): 1-102 
• "The Law's Influence over Children's Religious Development" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Rutgers University Press, 2009 
• The Liberal Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
• "The Meaning of the Family in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" in Equality and the Family: A Fundamental Practical Theology of Children, Mothers, and Fathers in Modern Societies, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007 
• "The Status of Children within the Roman Catholic Church" in Children and Childhood in American Religions, Cambridge University Press, 2009 
• "The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: Should It Be Ratified and Why?," Emory International Law Review (2006): 157-184 
• "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Should It Be Ratified and Why?," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2006): 157-183 
• "The World Situation of Families: Marriage Reformation as a Cultural Work" in Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life, Georgetown University Press, 2005 
• "Toward a Family Ethic of Equal Regard" in When 'Love' Strikes: Social Sciences, Ethics, and Theology on Family Violence 
• "Towrad a Family Ethic of Equal Regard" in When 'Love' Strikes: Social Sciences, Ethics, and Theology on Family Violence 
• "What About the Children? Liberal Cautions on Same-Sex Marriage" 
• "What's Wrong with Rights for Children?: U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child," Emory International Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2006): 1-239 
• "Who Cares for the Children?," September 22, 2003
• "World Family Trends" in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics