If you are considering marrying someone from a different religious faith, or if you are already in an interfaith marriage, check out these books on interfaith marriages for practical advice and encouragement.
1. "Celebrating Our Differences: Living Two Faiths in One Marriage"
Written by a couple (Mary Helene Rosenbaum and Stanley Rosenbaum) in a Catholic/Jewish marriage, this book gives realistic advice on how to have a successful interfaith marriage without compromising your beliefs.
2. "Complete Idiot's Guide to Interfaith Relationships"
Laurie Rozakis gives sensitive and practical information for couples considering or who are in interfaith marriages. Some of it may seem obvious, but the advice can remind couples of the importance of a nonjudgemental relationship.3. "Double or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage"
This is a social and psychological examination of mixed marriages. Sylvia Barack Fishman's research includes interviews with more than 250 interfaith couples, and she includes information of the perceptions, strengths and stereotypes of interfaith relationships.4. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
The interfaith marriage stories told by Brenda Lane Richardson in this book celebrate differences instead of worrying about them. Very romantic reading!5. "The Guide to Jewish Interfaith Family Life"
This handbook from InterfaithFamily.com and by Ronnie Friedland and Edmund Case offers a lot of practical advice, wisdom, and encouragement to couples who are in interfaith marriages.6. "Interfaith Family Guidebook: Practical Advice for Jewish & Christian Partners"
Here is a positive introduction to interfaith marriage issues such as planning your wedding and other family celebrations, holidays, parenting, and life-cycle events. The author, Joan Hawxhurst, also has a good section on references.7. "Interfaith Families"
Couples honestly share their own stories and shed light on the challenges and opportunities of an interfaith marriage in this book by Jane Kaplan.8. "The Intermarriage Handbook"
Judy Petsonk and Jim Remsen cover the roots of Jewish-Christian history, parenting, dealing with your own parents, and understanding the realities of interfaith marriage.9. "Joining Hands and Hearts"
Here's help for interfaith couples who are in the midst of planning their wedding ceremony. The Susanna Stefanachi Macomb includes helpful questionnaires for couples, wedding customs of 47 different cultures, and sample ceremonies for interfaith weddings.10. "Strangers to the Tribe: Portraits of Interfaith Marriage"
Written with compassion and humor by an intermarried woman, Gabrielle Glaser's interviews with couples in interfaith marriages explore their lives, their struggles, their joys, and the realities of being in an interfaith relationship.