Betrothal

The perspective of women varies greatly cross-culturally. Some questions that do not have the same respond from a culture to another culture include: What age are they are considered adults, what age should they be married, and what age are they prepared for child bearing. These questions are fundamentally rooted in the culture, religion and political frameworks of each society. Watching the series of shorts films, some of the questions were answered. Contemporary cases of religious persecutions in more than 50 developing countries are a direct result of child marriages. In the first video,The Heartbreaking Truth About Yemen 's Child Brides (Journeyman Pictures), Abdulmalik Al-Taj, a professor of Islamic law, refers very strictly to the problem of sovereignty. He states that they should be able to rule themselves, under Islamic law, which makes it okay for children to be married. He targets organizations like the United Nations and local NGO’s to be working with a “western agenda," failing to acknowledge the culturally and religiously rooted traditions of that practice. However, local organization argue that they are not representing westerners, they are represent humans and fighting for they inalienable human rights. Anderson (2011) states “that in all religions, religious texts are interpreted. More fundamentalist tend to subordinate women, while different reading can support greater freedom for women.” This point of view is exemplified by the way muslims interpret the…

In her article” Too Young to Wed,” Cynthia Gorney (2011) shares her experience through Rajasthan, India during Akha Teej, a festival where illegal, secret wedding practices occur with young girls. These experiences were overwhelming and marketable to the writer. “Snatch up the girl, punch out the nearby, and run. Just make it stop” she said during the ceremony while not being able to speak up and rescue the young girls. Forced early marriage thrives to this day in many regions of the world…

Weddings during Elizabethan Times had many laws and customs surrounding them and a wedding service that is quite different from what occurs in modern day. Betrothals were the first step in a marriage: “At a betrothal, the two people join hands. He gives her a ring to be worn on the right hand. It changes to the left at the wedding.” (Ros1). A betrothal was like a contract for the bride and groom; however, a betrothal could be canceled by consent of both parties, so long as the marriage was not…

author of this chapter in the book, Dressing the Dead in Classical Antiquity, she makes reference to Lawrence multiple times when stating both her4 line of inquiry and conclusion. The compilation, edited by Maureen Carroll and John Peter Wild, was based on a may 2010 Conference of the same topics. The chapter, entitled “Death And the Maiden: Reprising the Burials of Roman girls and Young Women”, was Harlow’s attempt to prove that the betrothal for a young girl was a part of the transition into…

married each other in originally. The final view that will be addressed in this paper is the Betrothal view. This is the view that John Piper holds and explains, in great detail, in his article Divorce & Remarriage: A Position Paper. While beginning this project with absolutely no bias, the author has become convinced that this is the correct view. The Betrothal view holds that divorce and remarriage are both wrong, and that the exclusion clause refers to the ability of a man or woman to leave…

Marriage (Then-Mosaic Days) In biblical days, betrothal took place before the actual marriage, and it was considered as binding as the marriage itself. The promise may have been broken, but a betrothal was considered final. Among the Hebrews it was a verbal covenant. Marriages in those days were not built on “romance and love”, rather more practical in those days. Most of the were arranged by the mother and father, and sometime as early as before they were actually born. The arrangement…

The arrangement was the time of matchmaking, usually decided upon by the fathers of the bride and groom. Often the couple did not know each other before the arrangement. The betrothal ceremony followed. To prepare for this, the bride and groom would take part, separately, in a ritual immersion in water, which symbolized spiritual cleansing. Next came the preparation period. During the betrothal period, the groom remained at his father’s home and prepared a place for the two to live. The…

families had the right to choose who their son/daughter would marry, and the process of sealing a marriage occurred with a contract to keep the wedding legal. The contract should include a dowry from the bride’s family, which is a form of compensation to the groom and his family, a cash settlement for the bride if her husband were to die first, and property from the husband’s family for a home to live in. Once the contract was drafted, a betrothal had to occur, where the couple held hands, “he…

It was a religious event that happened at the church with a minister. There were many detailed customs and specific rules that had to be followed. Before the wedding, there was the betrothal, and then the announcement of the wedding. In preparation for the wedding, the brides father had to pay for everything, such as, the food the clothes, the gifts, and he had to pay a dowry to the groom 's family. The bridesmaids had to prepare everything for the wedding to happen, like the gifts and the…

According to Women in Roman law and Society by Jane Gardner, even after the girl was married, she remained in her father’s potestas, meaning he still had control over her and power over her (Gardner 42). According to Roman Women by Eve D’Ambra, there were two types of manus, cum manu and sine manu (D’Ambra 46). Cum manu meant that the wife was under that control of her husband, while sine manu, meant that she was still under the control of her father. Meaning that the wife remained under the…