This course analyzes and describes how the development of the modern world shaped domestic life from the medieval role to the present. The role of Europe in the definitions and expectations of modernity is explored, with the implications for people who are Christians and who consider the Bible to be their authority regarding the will of God. We study the responses of the entire world to the realities of modernity, including the regions outside Europe. Emphasis is on the ways that communities as well as families changed with the industrial revolution, world migrations, and within ideologies such as communism, conservative Islam, capitalism, and liberal democracies.