Belief and ageing : : Spiritual pathways in later life /

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

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, H...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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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

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