Interfaith marriages

Abstract

Christians and Muslims have over the centuries lived in close proximity to one another, often being members of the same nuclear or extended family. Nowadays migrations, mobility and encounters made easier through contemporary means of transport is enabling people from different cultural and religious background to meet. In a growing number of cases this has led to marriages between people of different backgrounds for intermarriage implies the crossing or ethnic. linguistic, religious, racial and national boundaries by a woman and a man in life's most intimate union. The increasing occurrence of intermarriages across international barriers is today an aspect of globalization. This raises for both Christians and Muslims a number of important questions. Both Christians and Muslims therefore need to understand and appreciate the others' understanding of marriage.