Embracing Age - How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well

Informationen zum Autor ANNA I. CORWIN is an associate professor of anthropology at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga. Klappentext Embracing Age reveals that aging is not only a biological process, but is also shaped by what the process of growing older means to us. By examining Catholic nuns, a group that experiences positive health outcomes in older age, Anna I. Corwin reveals the connections between culture, language, and the experience of aging. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction Part I Being Well in the Convent: Prayer and Care in Interaction 1 Life in the Convent 2 Being Is Harder Than Doing: The Process of Embracing Aging 3 Talking to God: Prayer as Social Support 4 Care, Elderspeak, and Meaningful Engagement Part II Shaping Experience: The Convent in Sociohistorical Context 5 Changing God, Changing Bodies: How Prayer Practices Shape Embodied Experience 6 Spiritual Healing, Meaningful Decline, and Sister Death 7 Kenosis: Emptying the Self Conclusion Appendix: Transcription Conventions Acknowledgments Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Anna I Corwin, Anna I. Corwin
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781978822283
• ISBN: 978-1-978822-28-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Global Perspectives on Aging
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine