Today there are around 30,000 French-foreign marriages in mainland France per year. If we add marriages in embassies or consulates abroad, we could, according to some, double this figure. We should also add interreligious couples who are impossible to count and couples who have the same nationality but a different culture of origin.
- Why do some people decide to embark on the intercultural couple adventure?
- Are there any particular difficulties arising from this?
- Should we take cultural or religious differences seriously, or tell ourselves that love will overcome all obstacles?
- What are the delicate topics to discuss before getting married?
Illustrated by numerous testimonials, this book offers practical ideas that will help intercultural couples build a solid relationship marked by mutual understanding. Questions at the end of each chapter will allow couples, and those preparing them for marriage, to honestly discuss their relationship. Better armed, they will be able to face the differences and disagreements that will inevitably come their way.
This book is aimed at intercultural couples who experience their differences on a daily basis, the families around them who wish to understand their particular challenges, as well as community leaders who celebrate the marriages of intercultural couples. It is the result of doctoral research and numerous surveys with intercultural couples.
Jean-Christophe Bieselaar was born into a multicultural family. His intercultural marriage around twenty years ago led him to learn a new language but also to travel frequently abroad. He was a pastor in New York, then in the La Défense district of Paris, and he is currently a parish associate at the American Church of Paris where he prepares many intercultural couples for marriage. Having not found French books specifically adapted to the marriage preparation needs of these couples in all their diversity, he then decided to undertake doctoral research at King's College University of London and write a thesis interdisciplinary in sociology, psychology and practical theology on this subject.
ISBN: 9782863144435