Free Download Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2XKZJ9 | 2024 | 6 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 346 MB
Author: Cheryl Mendelson
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
From the bestselling author comes the story of our wedding vows-what they mean and why they still matter. In the West, marrying is so thoroughly identified with ceremonial promises that "taking vows" is a synonym for getting married. So, it’s a surprise to realize that this custom is actually a historical and anthropological oddity. Most of the world, for most of history, married without making promises. And there’s a reason for that. Marriage by vow presupposes free choice, and free choice makes a love-match possible. It is a very modern arrangement. Vows is both a moving memoir of two marriages and a thoughtful meditation on marriage itself.