Belief and ageing: Spiritual pathways in later life

✍ Scribed by Peter G. Coleman

Publisher: Policy Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 193
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Based on 40 years' interviewing experience, this book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs held by older people. It provides models of research procedure, especially in the context of bereavement. Participants include not only British Christians, but also Muslims, Humanists and witnesses of the Soviet persecution of religion. The author argues that both welfare professionals and gerontologists need to pay far more consideration to belief as a constituent of well-being in later life. The book looks to the future and increasing diversity of choice in matters of belief among Britain and Europe's older citizens as a consequence of immigration and globalisation.

✦ Table of Contents

BELIEF AND AGEING
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Ageing and belief
The changing social context of belief in later life
Listening and enabling the sharing of beliefs and values in later life
Ageing and faith
Religious responses in coping with spousal bereavement
Coping without religious faith
Religious memory and age
Religious difference and age
Ageing and the future of belief
References
Index

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