Preface / Darwin L. Thomas

1. The Religion and Family Connection: Increasing Dialogue in the Social Sciences / Darwin L. Thomas, Gwendolyn C. Henry
2. Reciprocal Influences of Family and Religion in a Changing World / Arland Thornton
3. Religion and Family in Middletown, USA / Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick
4. The Contemporary American Jewish Family / Jay Y. Brodbar-Nemzer
5. The American Catholic Family: Signs of Cohesion and Polarization / William V. D'Antonio
6. Four C's of the Mormon Family: Chastity, Conjugality, Children and Chauvinism / Tim B. Heaton
7. Contemporary Challenges for Religion and the Family from a Protestant Woman's Point of View / Letha Dawson Scanzoni
8. Family Life: An Old Order Amish Manifesto / Marc A. Olshan
9. Family and Religious Change in a Peripheral Capitalist Society: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ireland / Eugene Hynes
10. The Effect of Domestic/Religious Individualism on Suicide / Steven Stack
11. The Influence of Three Agents of Religious Socialization: Family, Church, and Peers / Marie Cornwall
12. Religious Sources of Gender Traditionalism / Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, Marlene MacKie
13. Familial Influence on Religious Involvement / Gerald N. Stott
14. The Impact of Parental Views of the Nature of Humankind upon Child-Rearing Attitudes / Lawrence O. Clayton
15. The New Christian Right's View of the Family and Its Social Science Critics: A Study in Differing Presuppositions / Patrick H. McNamara
16. Developments in Modern Physics and Their Implications for the Social and Behavioral Sciences / Mark A. Schroll
17. Families and Religions: An Anthropological Typology / James V. Spickard
18. Types of Religious Values and Family Cultures / Horst J. Helle
19. Future Prospects for Religion and Family Studies: The Mormon Case / Darwin L. Thomas