Getting Started

Just by reading the section on religious traditions, I have learned quite a bit on the different marriage traditions throughout the world. There were a few questions that came to my mind before reading this weeks material, one being, what was the significance of the breaking of the goblet by the Jewish groom? It's unique to learn how different religions treat situations differently, which gave rise to traditions that are still followed to this day. What I was very interested in reading about was the Muslim marriage traditions. In Muslim marriages, I got a feeling, that there was not much romance involved. It was more of a contract, where the woman kept her own name and was left with her own property. My impressions also were that divorce was easy to obtain in the Muslim faith, and males could have more than one wife. There were no religious sacraments associated with Islamic marriages. The purpose for marriage that came up more than once was the atmosphere to create a stable environment for raising children.