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Families -- Religious aspects

Here are entered general works on the concept of family from the religious standpoint. Works that describe or offer guidance on developing religious and devotional life in families are entered under Families -- Religious life.

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• Families
• Religious aspects

• Families -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
• Families -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Families -- Religious aspects -- Islam
• Families -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
• Children -- Religious aspects

• The Christian Home (Chicago: Francisan Herald Press, 1938), by Celestine Strub (HTML at EWTN)

• For That I Came: Virtues and Ideals of Jesuit Education (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1997), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
• Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), by Edward Le Roy Long (PDF at Georgetown)
• Georgetown at Two Hundred: Faculty Reflections on The University's Future (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990), ed. by William C. McFadden (PDF at Georgetown)
• Jesuit Education and the Cultivation of Virtue (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1990), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• Baptized Patriarchalism: The Cult of the Family (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, ca. 1994), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Secrets of Happy Home Life: What Have You do Do With It? (New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co, c1894), by J. R. Miller
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Why Children Matter (c2014), by Johann Christoph Arnold (HTML with commentary at plough.com)

• Business and Diversion Inoffensive to God, and Necessary for the Comfort and Support of Human Society: A Discourse Utter'd in part at Ammauskeeg-Falls in the Fishing-Season, 1739, by Joseph Seccombe (page images with commentary at UNH)
• The Nature and Tendency of Balls, by Jacob Ide (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Social Dancing Inconsistent with a Christian Profession and Baptismal Vows, by B. M. Palmer (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Nature and Tendency of Balls, by Jacob Ide (HTML and page images at LOC)

• An Appeal to All Christians, Especially the Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Against the Practice of Social Dancing, by John G. Jones (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing As a Christian Amusement, by George C. Heckman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Discourse on Dancing, Delivered in the Central Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, by N. L. Rice (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Familiar Dialogues on Dancing, Between a Minister and a Dancer, by John Phillips (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Immorality of Modern Dances, ed. by Beryl and Associates (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Modern Dance and What Shall Take Its Place, by Melvin C. Drumm (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Modern Dancing, In the Light of Scripture and Facts, by William W. Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)

• A Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons: The Catechism of the New Age (revised second edition; Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1988), by Peter J. Leithart and George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• The Family in Islam, by Muhammad Shirazi, trans. by Ali Adam (PDF at shirazi.org.uk)

• Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), ed. by Jack Wertheimer (PDF at Brandeis)

• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1869), by J. T. Crane (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1870), by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
• Tired Church Members, by Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)

• Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Kimerer L. LaMothe (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• An Account of the Trial of Social Dance, by George Davis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancers and Dancing: A Calm and Rational View of the Dancing Question, by J. M. Hubbert (HTML and page images at LOC)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (Chicago: The Henry Publishing Co., c1892), by Thomas A. Faulkner
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML and page images at LOC
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (c1894), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (illustrated edition; ca. 1920), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• May Christians Dance?, by James H. Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Modern Dances, by Luigi Sartori (HTML and page images at LOC)

• A Solemn Warning to Dancers (ca. 1830), by N. Bangs and J. Emory (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• The Modern Dance, by M. F. Ham (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse (1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.goc)

• Why Children Matter (c2014), by Johann Christoph Arnold (HTML with commentary at plough.com)

• Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1887), by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, contrib. by E. Adelaide Manning (Gutenberg text)

• Dungeons and Dragons: Witchcraft, Suicide, Violence (Lutz, FL: P. Dempsey; Richmond, VA: P. Pulling, ca. 1985), by Mary Dempsey, Pat Dempsey, and Pat A. Pulling (page images with commentary at theescapist.org)

• Our Children in the Other Life, by Chauncey Giles (HTML at Swedenborg Digital Library)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Families: Beyond the Nuclear Ideal (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris; With Some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. (EETS original series #42; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1870), by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Theory of the Family, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
• La Famiglia: Per le Nozze della Signorina Elena Palumbo col Signor Donato Sarri (in Italian; Trani: V. Vecchi, 1897), by Orazio Palumbo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Life at Home, by William Aikman (page images at MOA)
• Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• In Laws, Pro and Con: An Original Study of Inter-Personal Relations (New York: Association Press, c1954), by Evelyn Millis Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
• What is Right With Marriage: An Outline of Domestic Theory (New York: D. Appleton, 1929), by Robert C. Binkley and Frances Williams Binkley (multiple formats with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• The New Life and Future Mating (Omaha: Olerich Pub. Co., 1927), by Henry Olerich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marriage and the Child (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940), by James H. S. Bossard (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.