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Hendricks, J. J., Dollahite, D. C., Marks, L. D., & Herbst, J. (2023). Personal and relational processes of repentance in religious Jewish, Christian, and Muslim families. Review of Religious Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0034673X231214274

Chelladurai, J. M., Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C., Kelley, H. H., & Allsop, D. B. (2023). The hidden power of "thank you": Exploring aspects, expressions, and the influence of gratitude in religious families. Psychology, 5(3), 742-756. https://doi.org/10.3390/psych5030048

Kelley, H. H., Hendricks, J. J., Chelladurai, J. M., Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2023). “We have hope”: An exploration of hope in highly religious families. Family Relations. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12937

Hendricks, J. J., Chelladurai, J. M., Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C., Kelley, H. H., & Rose, A. (2022). Exploring personal and relational motivations and processes of forgiveness in religious families. Family Relations. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12733

Chelladurai, J. M., Kelley, H. H., Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C. (2022). Humility in family relationships: Exploring how humility influences relationships in religious families. Journal of Family Psychology, 36, 201-211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000860

Allsop, D. B., Leavitt, C. E., Clarke, R. W., Driggs; S., Gurr, J. B, Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2021). Perspectives from highly religious families on boundaries and rules about sex. Journal of Religion and Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-020-01171-9

Brown, T., Lu, Y., Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2011). Meaning making across three dimensions of religious experience: A qualitative exploration. Counselling and Spirituality, 30, 11-36. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-00594-001

Chelladurai, J., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). “The family that prays together. Relational process associated with family prayer. Journal of Family Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000432

Chelladurai, J. M., Kelley, H. H., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2021). Humility in family relationships: Exploring how humility influences relationships in religious families. Journal of Family Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000860

Dalton, H., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). Transcendence matters: Do the ways family members experience God meaningfully relate to family life? Review of Religious Research, 60, 23-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13644-017-0317-2

Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2009). A conceptual model of processes in a diverse, national sample of highly religious families. Review of Religious Research, 50, 373-391. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25593754

Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). Introduction to the special issue: Exploring strengths in American families of faith. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 617-634. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469569

Dollahite, D. C., Marks, L. D., Banford Witting, A., LeBaron, A. B., Young, K. P., & Chelladurai, J. M. (2020). How relationship-enhancing transcendent religious experiences during adversity can encourage relational meaning, depth, healing, and action. Religions, 11, 519. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11100519

Dollahite, D. C., Marks, L. D., & Barrow, B. H. (2019). Exploring relational reconciliation processes in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim families. Family Relations. https://doi.org/10.111/fare.12371

Dollahite, D. C., Marks, L. D., & Young, K. P. (2019). Relational struggles and experiential immediacy in religious American families. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. 11, 9-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000135

Dollahite, D. C., Marks, L. D., Babcock, K. P., Barrow, B. H., & Rose, A. H. (2019). Beyond religious rigidities: Religious firmness and religious flexibility as complementary loyalties in faith transmission. Religions, 10, 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020111 [Simultaneously published In R. J. Petts (Ed.), Religion and family life (pp. 2-19). Basel, Switzerland: MDPI.]

Essig, L. W., Lott, M. L., Abo-Zena, M. M., Alghalfi, Z., Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2018). Answering to Allah: Relational unity among American Muslim families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 749-761. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469577

Hatch, T. G., & Marks, L. D. (2020/2021). Family. In A. Possamai & A. Blasi (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of sociology of religion. SAGE.

Hatch, T., Marks, L., Bitah, E., Lawrence, M., Lambert, N., Dollahite, D., & Hardy, B. (2017). The power of prayer in transforming individuals and marital relationships: A qualitative examination of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim families. Review of Religious Research. https://rdcu.be/blmnH

Kelley, H. H., Dollahite, D. C., James, S., & Marks, L. D. (2022). Changes in spiritual practices and relational wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Marriage and Family Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2021.2022563

Kelley, H. H., LeBaron, A. B., Sussman, L. J., Fagan, J., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). Shalom bayit—peace of the home: Ritual and tradition in American Jewish families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 706-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1478922

Kimball, E. R., Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C., Leavitt, C. E., & Kelley, H. H. (2021). Why do the devout remain devoted? Exploring religious expectations and relational compensators. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000439

Kroff, S. L., Cragun, K. L., Reyes, J. R., Wilmoth, J. D., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). Relationship with God and the word: Faith among American Evangelical Christian families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 693-705. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469574

Leonhardt, N. D., Kirchner, E. R., Phillips, T. M., Skipper, A. D., Dollahite, D. C., Marks, L. D. (2018). Together forever: Eternal perspective and sacred practices in American Latter-day Saint families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 719-732. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469575

Marks, L. D. (2004). Sacred practices in highly religious families: Christian, Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim perspectives. Family Process, 43, 217-231. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2004.04302007.x

Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2011). Mining the meanings from psychology of religion’s correlation mountain. Journal of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 3, 181-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0022206

Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2012). “Don’t forget home”: The importance of sacred ritual in families. Pp. 186-203 in J. Hoffman (Ed.) Understanding religious ritual: Theoretical approaches and innovations. New York: Routledge. PDF

Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2017). Religion and families: An introduction. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Families-Introduction-Textbooks-Studies/dp/1848725469

Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2018). Surmounting the empathy wall: Deep respect and holy envy in qualitative scholarship. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 762-773. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469578

Marks, L. D., & Palkovitz, R. (2007). Fathers as spiritual guides. In S. E. Brotherson & J. M. White (Eds.), Why fathers count (pp. 209-223). Harriman, TN: Men’s Studies Press. PDF

Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C., & Freeman, J. J. (2011). Faith and prayer in family life. In T. W. Draper, A. J. Hawkins, & D. C. Dollahite (Eds.), Strengthening our families (2nd ed.), (pp. 185-195). Provo, UT: BYU. PDF

Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C., & Young, K. P. (2019). Struggles experienced by religious minority families in the United States. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 11, 247-256. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000214

Marks, L. D., Hatch, T. G., & Dollahite, D. C. (2017). Sacred practices and family processes in a Jewish context: Shabbat as the weekly family ritual par excellence. Family Process. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12286

Millett, M. A., Cook, L. E., Skipper, A. D., Chaney, C. D., Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2018). Weathering the storm: The shelter of faith for Black American Christian families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 662-676. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469572

Moore, TJ, Hill, M. S., King, P. E., Palkovitz, R., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). Loving God, loving others: The sacred among American Mainline Protestant families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 733-748. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469576

Pippert, H. D., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2019). Sacrifice and self-care as relational processes in religious families: The connections and tensions. Family Relations, 68, 534-548. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12388

Son, D., Egginton, B. R., Lu, Y., Ai, A. L., Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2018). New Christians in a new land: Faith journeys of Asian American immigrant families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 648-661. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469571

Spencer, A. T., Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C., & Kelley, H. H. (2021). Positive relational transformation in religious families: Supports and catalysts for meaningful change. Family Relations, 70, 1514-1525. doi.org/10.1111/fare.12440

White, T., Chelladurai, J. M., Monroe, P. A., Garand, J. C., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). Kept together by faith: Confession and forgiveness among American Catholic and Orthodox Christian families. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 677-692. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469573

Wurm, G. J., Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2018). The inner logic of religion(s): Theoretical implications regarding eight American religious-ethnic communities. Marriage and Family Review, 54, 635-647. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469570