Belief and ageing : : Spiritual pathways in later life / / Peter G. Coleman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Coleman, Peter G.,
• MitwirkendeR: Begum, Amina,; Coleman, Peter G.,; Gianelli, Marie,; Jaleel, Saba,; Mills, Marie A.,; Petrov, Ignat,; Phillips, Judith,; Speck, Peter,; Spreadbury, John H.,; Wilkinson, Peter J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

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

Front Matter -- 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: trajectories across the lifespan -- Religious responses in coping with 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 -- References -- Index