Belief and Ageing - Spiritual Pathways in Later Life

Informationen zum Autor Peter G. Coleman is Professor of Psychogerontology at the University of Southampton, a joint appointment between social sciences and medicine. He has published widely on issues of development and mental health in later life, including the role of life review and spiritual belief. Klappentext This book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs held by older people, including British Christians, Muslims, Humanists and witnesses of the Soviet persecution of religion. Zusammenfassung This book illustrates the variety of religious! spiritual and other beliefs held by older people! including British Christians! Muslims! Humanists and witnesses of the Soviet persecution of religion. 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: Trajectories across the lifespan; Religious responses in coping with the spousal bereavement; Coping without religious faith: Ageing among British humanists; Religious memory and age: European diversity in historical experience of Christianity; Religious difference and age: The growing presence of other faiths; Ageing and the future of belief.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Coleman, Peter G. Coleman, Peter G. (School of Psychology Coleman
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9781847424600
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-460-0
• No. of pages: 181
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Policy Press - Ageing and the; Ageing and the Lifecourse Series; Ageing and the Lifecourse; Policy Press - Ageing and the
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories