Abstract
Spirituality is a powerful dimension of human experience and family life. Spiritual beliefs and practices have anchored and nourished families over the millennia and across cultures. Today, the vast majority of families worldwide adopt some form of expression for their spiritual needs, both within and outside organized religion. This chapter addresses the role of spirituality in couple and family relationships, with attention to the growing diversity and complexity of spiritual beliefs and practices in society and within families. It examines the meaning and salience of spirituality in sociocultural context and its dynamic ebb and flow across the multigenerational family life cycle. Research and practice recommendations are offered to explore the spiritual dimension in couple and family relationships: to identify spiritual sources of distress and spiritual resources for coping, healing, and resilience, fitting families’ values and preferences.
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