Qualitative family scholar Kerry Daly has called for more theory addressing understudied dimensions including religion, everyday experiences, and time. Herein we address all three of these dimensions as we empirically examine and theorize on relational struggles among religious families. We also explore what we term experiential immediacy—defined as the personal and temporal proximity to participant-reported lived experience. Based on qualitative analyses of in-depth interviews with 198 highly religious families (N = 476 individuals), we identified four types of relational struggles created by religious involvement: burdens, disunities, abuses, and offenses. We also offer a conceptual framework of experiential immediacy grounded in the findings and explore how personal and temporal immediacy of remembered, present, and possible experiences and quality of experience relate to relational struggles created by religious involvement. We also suggest implications for research based on our findings and concepts.

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美国宗教家庭中的关系斗争和经验直接性。

定性家庭学者克里·戴利 (Kerry Daly) 呼吁建立更多理论来解决尚未研究的维度，包括宗教、日常经验和时间。在此，我们在对宗教家庭之间的关系斗争进行实证检验和理论化时，讨论所有这三个维度。我们还探索了我们所说的体验即时性——定义为与参与者报告的生活体验的个人和时间接近度。基于对 198 个高度宗教家庭（N = 476 个人）的深入访谈的定性分析，我们确定了宗教参与造成的四种关系斗争：负担、不团结、虐待和冒犯。我们还提供了一个基于研究结果的体验即时性的概念框架，并探讨了记忆、呈现、可能的经历和经历的质量与宗教参与造成的关系斗争有关。我们还根据我们的发现和概念建议对研究的影响。