Religion, Belief, and Spirituality in Late Life,9780826112354

Religion, Belief, and Spirituality in Late Life

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ISBN13: 9780826112354
ISBN10: 0826112358
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-02-01
Publisher(s): Springer Pub Co
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Summary

This volume examines the importance of beliefs in understanding psycho logically-relevant issues from self-identity to recovery from grief. T homas and Eisenhandler provide a broad framework for viewing religion in the lives of the elderly by drawing on insights derived from the hu manities, and those mined from qualitative social science research, as well as from empirical and quantitative research. This book is a usef ul resource for academics, gerontologists, psychologists, graduate-lev el students, and other professionals who are interested in the emergin g study of religion, spirituality, and aging.

Table of Contents

Contributors xi
Foreword xiii
Robert L. rubinstein
Introduction: Research on Religion and Aging---Mapping an Uncharted Territory xvii
L. Eugene Thomas
Susan A. Eisenhandler
PART I: Creating and Understanding the Text of Late-Life Spirituality
A Handful of Quietness: Measuring the Meaning of Our Years
3(10)
Stephen Bertman
Joan and Erik Erikson and Sarah and Abraham: Parallel Awakenings in the Long Shadow of Wisdom and Faith
13(22)
W. Andrew Achenbaum
Stephen M. Modell
PART II: Spirituality Writ Large and Small in Late Life
Religious and Ethical Strivings in the Later Years: Three Paths to Spiritual Maturity and Integrity
35(24)
Melvin E. Miller
Reading Between the Lines: Aspects of Transcendence and Spirituality in One Group
59(14)
Susan A. Eisenhandler
PART III: The Nature of Beliefs: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Quarreling with God: Belief and Disbelief Among Elderly Jewish Immigrants from the Former USSR
73(20)
L. Eugene Thomas
Some Correlates of Religiosity Among Turkish Adults and Elderly Within a Cross-Cultural Perspective
93(20)
E. Olcay Imamoglu
PART IV: Glimpses of Gendered Spirituality
Spirituality: A Continually Evolving Component in Women's Identity Development
113(24)
Patricia C. Burke
Surprised by Joy and Burdened by Age: The Journal and Letters of John Casteel
137(16)
Susan H. McFadden
PART V: Is There a Distinctive Spirituality of Late Life?
Religion As a Quest and the Search for Meaning in Later Life
153(25)
Andrew Futterman
James J. Dillon
Francois Garand III
Joshua Haugh
Late-Life Transcendence: A New Developmental Perspective on Aging
178(25)
Lars Tornstam
Afterword 203(12)
Robert C. Kastenbaum
Index 215

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