David C. Dollahite is Camilla E. Kimball Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University, USA. His scholarship focuses on the nexus of religion and family relationships. Loren D. Marks is Professor of family life at Brigham Young University, USA, where he is Director of the Marriage, Family, and Human Development graduate program. He is author of Religion and Families: An Introduction.

• Introduction: Exploring Strengths in American Families of Faith 1. The Inner Logic of Religion(s): Theoretical Implications Regarding Eight American Religious-Ethnic Communities 2. New Christians in a New Land: Faith Journeys of Asian American Immigrant Families 3. Weathering the Storm: The Shelter of Faith for Black American Christian Families 4. Kept Together by Faith: Confession and Forgiveness among American Catholic and Orthodox Christian Families 5. Relationship with God and the Word: Faith among American Evangelical Christian families 6. Shalom bayit—Peace of the Home: Ritual and Tradition in American Jewish Families 7. Together Forever: Eternal Perspective and Sacred Practices in American Latterday Saint Families 8. Loving God, Loving Others: The Sacred Among American Mainline Protestant Families 9. Answering to Allah: Relational Unity among American Muslim Families 10. Surmounting the Empathy Wall: Deep Respect and Holy Envy in Qualitative Scholarship