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LATTER-DAY SAINT FAMILIES

AFF and The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Research Related to LDS Family Proclamation

SCHOLARLY WORKS

Phillips, T. M., Smith, J. R., Long, A. C., Wheeler, B. E., Marks, L. D., Goodman, M., Hatch, T., & Wall, S. K. (2023). Family Home Evening as a model for promoting family health. nternational Journal of Latest Research in Humanities and Social Science, 6 (11), 98-103.

Hendricks, J. J., Cazier, J., Nelson, J. M., Marks, L. D., & Hardy, S. A. (2022). Qualitatively exploring repentance processes, antecedents, motivations, resources, and outcomes in Latter-day Saints. Archive for the Psychology of Religion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00846724221133137

Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2006). Family and community nurturing spirituality in Latter-day Saint children and youth. In K. Yust, A. N. Johnson, S. E. Sasso, & E. C. Roehlkepartain (Eds.), Nurturing childhood and adolescent spirituality: Perspectives from the world’s religious traditions (pp. 394-408). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Dollahite, D. C., & Marks, L. D. (2012). Mormon American families. In R. Wright, C. H. Mindel, R. W. Habenstein, & T. Van Tran (Eds.) Ethnic families in America: Patterns and Variations, 5th Ed. (pp. 461-486). Upper Saddle Hall, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Dollahite, D. C., Marks, L. D., & Kelley, H. H. (2017). Mormon scholars and Mormon families in family studies: A brief retrospective. Mormon Studies Review, 4, 16-40. https://doi.org/10.18809/mimsr.21568030

Goodman, M. A., Marks, L. D., & Dollahite, D. C. (2012). Transformational processes and meaning in Latter-day Saint marriage. Marriage & Family Review, 48, 555- 582.

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 & 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.

Marks, L. D. (2005). How does religion influence marriage?: Christian, Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim perspectives. Marriage & Family Review, 38, 85-111.

Marks, L. D., & Beal, B. (2008). Preserving peculiarity as a people: Mormon distinctness in values and internal structure. In C. K. Jacobson, J. P. Hoffmann, and T. B. Heaton (Eds.), Revisiting “The Mormons”: Persistent themes and contemporary perspectives (pp. 258-285). Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah.

Marks, L. D. & Dollahite, D. C. (2021). Approaching God: Jewish and Latter-day Saint prayer and worship. In Trevan G. Hatch & Leonard Greenspoon (Eds.), “The learning of the Jews”: What Latter-day Saints can learn from Jewish religious experience (pp. 115-141). Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books.

Marks, L. D., Dollahite, D. C., Hatch, T. G., Goodman, M. A., Phillips, T. M., & Kelley, H. H. (2020). The real Book of Mormon musical: Latter-day Saint Family Home Evening as a weekly ritual. Marriage & Family Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2020.1726852

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Latter-day Saint Families: Eternal Perspectives
Why Do They Tithe? Perspectives on Giving Back to God
A Mormon Antidote to Fast-Paced Living
Mormons’ Weekly Family Ritual Is an Antidote to Fast-Paced Living

VIDEOS

Family Prayer: Building Faith and Building Family
Parenting and God's Unconditional Love

PODCASTS

Latter-day Saint Families | Episode 09

AUDIO ARTICLES

Why Do They Tithe? Perspectives on Giving Back to God | Audio Article 16
Mormons’ Weekly Family Ritual Is an Antidote to Fast-Paced Living | Audio Article 07
Latter-day Saint Families: Eternal Perspectives | Audio Article 35