Religion, spirituality, and aging for "the aging" themselves

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 41-49

  Simmons, Henry C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cognition; Cohort; Experience; Religion; Spirituality; Volition

Indexed keywords

AGING; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

AGING; HUMANS; RELIGION; SPIRITUALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 32444448424     PISSN: 01634372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J083v45n01_03     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Recent studies include Journal of Religious Gerontology, 14/4, 2003. These studies are both empirical and analytical, and point the reader to a wide range of other studies.
2. The choice of 1935 is fairly arbitrary although it coincides with the beginning of Social Security.
3. Because it is what I know first-hand, I speak here of Christian denominations, not other religions or faiths.
4. Antoine Vergole (1969). The Religious Man: A psychological study of religious attitudes. Trans. Marie-Bernard Said. Dublin, Gill, and Macmillan, p. 274.
5. Elizabeth J. Tisdell (2003). Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. p. 9.
6. Cf.: Henry C. Simmons (Winter. 1993), "Discovering the Public/Private World: A Research Note.' In Journal of Psychology & Theology, 21(4), pp. 319-322.
7. Janet L. Ramsey and Rosemary Blieszner, Spiritual Resiliency in Older Women: Models of strength for challenges through the life span. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999, p. 11.
8. Scott Thumma, "Denominational Identity and Church Vitality." 〈http:fact. hartsem.edu/topfinding/topicalfindings.htm〉 (27 October 2003).
9. Hans Küng et al. (1986, 1993). Christianity and World Religions: Paths of dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis books, p. 177.
10. Walter Principe (Spring 1983). "Toward Defining Spirituality." In SR, 12/2, pp. 127-141.
11. Principe, 130.
12. Joseph Coalter (undated). "One Mapping of the American Religious Context." Ms., pp. 21, 20.
13. Ernest Trice Thompson (1961). "The Spirituality of the Church: A distinctive doctrine of the Presbyterian Church in the United States." Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, p. 7.
14. Studs Terkel (2002). Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on death, rebirth, and hunger for a faith. New York: Ballentine Books, p. xix.
15. Principe, 136.
16. Küng, 171, 170.
17. Küng, 177.
18. Reference unknown-I typed these words out on a 4×6 file-card 30 years ago, without noting where they were from.
19. Tisdell, 28.
20. Ramsey & Blieszner, 10.