In this article, we examine whether mother's and father's self-reported religiousness relates differently to the timing of their children's marriages. Conceptualizing religion as one source of cultural schema about marriage that is likely to conflict with other schemas for living, and theorizing that women are more likely to experience structured ambivalence over religious schema and their enactment than men, we predict father's religiousness will be associated with children's marriage in accordance with religious dogma, whereas the experience of structured ambivalence yields a more complex relationship between mother's religiousness and their children's marriage. Using longitudinal data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal, a primarily Hindu and Buddhist setting, we find contrasting associations between son's marriage timing and mothers' and fathers' religiousness. This provides empirical support for theoretical frameworks that emphasize the gendered nature of religious identity and suggests the influence of religion on other aspects of life is gendered.

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父母宗教信仰与子女结婚时机的性别关系

在这篇文章中，我们研究了母亲和父亲自我报告的宗教信仰是否与他们孩子结婚的时间有不同的关系。将宗教概念化为关于婚姻的文化图式的一种来源，它可能与其他生活图式发生冲突，并且从理论上讲，女性比男性更有可能经历对宗教图式及其制定的结构性矛盾心理，我们预测父亲的宗教信仰将与孩子的婚姻符合宗教教条，而结构性矛盾的经验在母亲的宗教信仰和孩子的婚姻之间产生了更复杂的关系。使用来自尼泊尔奇旺谷家庭研究的纵向数据，主要是印度教和佛教背景，我们发现儿子的结婚时间与父母的宗教信仰之间存在对比关系。这为强调宗教身份的性别化本质的理论框架提供了实证支持，并表明宗教对生活其他方面的影响是性别化的。