{"title":"Perspectives on Aging: Jewish, Roman Catholic, Protestant","authors":"Lindsey P. Pherigo","doi":"10.1300/J078v12n02_09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078v12n02_09","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will attempt to describe some of the religious, theological, and biblical aspects of aging, as understood by Judaism, Roman Catholicism, and Protestantism, in their traditional forms. By traditional forms, I mean Talmudic Judaism, pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism, and the Protestantism rooted in the Lutheran and Reformed traditions. I am quite aware that there are a healthy variety of positions within each of these traditions, but this variety does not obliterate some basic shapes of each as they have expressed themselves in history. I am also aware that there are cross currents of theology that find powerful representatives in all three traditions, from the ‘‘fundamentalists,’’ on one extreme, to ‘‘process theologians’’ on the otherwith ‘‘charismatics’’ and ‘‘liberals’’ somewhere along the continuum between. Time and space alone, to say nothing of the need for a focus, preclude my taking all these cross currents into our discussion. It will be sufficient now to deal with the three great Western expressions of religion in their mainstream, more-or-less orthodox, forms. With this plan, all three traditions will perhaps feel poorly represented. Judaism, for example, will respond with a protest from the Reform group-or even from the Conservativethat they aren’t fully","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"79 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078v12n02_09","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66766752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion in Gerontological Research, Training and Practice","authors":"Barbara Pittard Payne Stancil","doi":"10.1300/J078v12n02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078v12n02_03","url":null,"abstract":"Religion has played a minor role in gerontological research to explain the aging process, in teaching about the social psychological behavior of normal aging, and in the aging network as a source of social psychological support of older people. It took the budget cuts of the 1980s to arouse the interest of the aging network in religious organizations as a major source (of resources) available to help continue their programs and services. Agencies faced with the necessity of developing cooperative programs with churches/synagogues found they had little research information or staff specialists in agency and church programming to guide them. The treatment of religion by gerontologists is not consonant with the importance that older people place on religion in their lives. No other social institution outside the family in American society is more pervasive in the lives of older people than the church/synagogue. Furthermore, the involvement has been a long one. Social activity in religious context rates high in importance for most elderly and contributes to their life satisfaction and personal adjustment to old age. Two levels of religion are involved in gerontological research, teaching/curriculum and practice: the individual and organizational.","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"19 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078v12n02_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66766292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ministry with the Elderly: Training Needs of Clergy","authors":"J. Ellor, R. Coates","doi":"10.1300/J078V12N02_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078V12N02_04","url":null,"abstract":"One of the significant groups of people that every pastor needs to be able to engage through ministry is the elderly. While older persons constitute eleven percent of our society, they often make up a much larger portion of our congregations. Their needs vary as widely as their numbers. Some seniors are important participants in the power structure of the church; others seem to prefer to be left alone. While some of the older members of the church invest numerous volunteer hours, others seem to have insatiable needs. This diversity presents a significant challenge to those persons engaged in educating women and men for ministry. However, the critical question is, given the fact that students can’t learn everything, which should be available to them to prepare them for their vocation? In an effort to address the question of training needs to be considered when educating for ministry with the elderly, a survey of parish clergy was carried out. The purpose of this paper is to report on the","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"29 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078V12N02_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66766553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication with Older Persons: Part I-Looking Within","authors":"Robert E. Buxbaum DMin and Acsw","doi":"10.1300/J078V12N02_08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078V12N02_08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"69-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078V12N02_08","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66766696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Psalms as a Resource for Nursing Home Ministry","authors":"P. Hart","doi":"10.1300/J078v12n02_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078v12n02_07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"61 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078v12n02_07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66766952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editor's Introduction","authors":"Kenneth J. Branco","doi":"10.1300/j078v12n01_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j078v12n01_02","url":null,"abstract":"The articles in this issue of the journal were presented as a symposium on Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health at the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. They all explore some aspect of the question: Is emotional well-being improved, damaged, or unaffected by religious and spiritual belief and experience? Linda Foley looks for some of the correlates of spiritual well-being among older women. In samples including young, middle-aged and older people, prior research suggests that increased age is associated with increased spirituality. Foley finds that this is not the case within a sample of women ranging in age from their early sixties to over one hundred. Apparently, several decades spent within old age may not produce the same spiritual growth as decades from youth to middle age or from middle to old age. Is there a spiritual ceiling? Why not spiritual change within old age? Isn’t change and diversity one of the hallmarks of gerontological research in mental health? Are not at least some people able to continue to grow spiritually and to find meaning and life satisfaction even as they continue to age through life’s last chapters? She finds that there are surely spiritual differences among these women. A college education, better health and being married are all associated with higher levels of spirituality. Perhaps the key to spiritual and mental health is an ability to transcend the inevitable losses that accompany late life. Fereshteh Ahmadi Lewin and L. Eugene Thomas take us to other cultures to explore the relationship between gerotranscendence and life satisfaction. Their findings among Turkish Moslems and Iranian Sufis suggest that gerotranscendence is a quite valuable, but not the only, way to contentment and appreciation of life in the later years. They also find gerotranscendence and religion to be related in both groups, but in different ways. They argue that Turkish Moslems find their way to gerotranscendence through acceptance of suffering. Iranian Sufis follow a more","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"3 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/j078v12n01_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66765968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gerotranscendence and Life Satisfaction: Studies of Religious and Secular Iranians and Turks","authors":"Fereshteh Ahmadi Lewin, L. Thomas","doi":"10.1300/J078v12n01_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078v12n01_04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A possible relationship between gerotranscendence and life satisfaction was examined using the life narrative approach followed by thematic semi-structured interviews with religious and secular Iranians residing in Sweden and religious and secular Turks residing in Turkey. Both the Turkish and the Iranian studies provide support for the hypothesis that there is a relationship between gerotranscendence and life satisfaction. Both studies show that persons who displayed evidence of gerotranscendence also displayed evidence of life satisfaction. Additionally, neither of the studies revealed informants displaying gerotranscendence in the absence of discernable life satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"17 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078v12n01_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66766117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Word from the Editor","authors":"J. Ellor","doi":"10.1300/j078v12n01_01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/j078v12n01_01","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Journal of Religious Gerontology has been guestedited by Kenneth Branco, PhD, Director of the Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Institute for Law and Society and Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts. These papers were originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, in San Francisco, California in November of 1999. They reflect an important cross section of the quantitative work done in the area of religion, spirituality and aging. This collection is dedicated to the memory of L. Eugene Thomas who contributed to one of the papers in this issue. Like the work of Dr. Thomas, this issue explores fundamental topics through research that is both interfaith and multi-national. It is my hope that you will find them to be as useful as I have in continuing to define both research and practice.","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/j078v12n01_01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66765918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religiosity and Depression Among Nursing Home Residents: Results of a Survey of Ten States","authors":"Kenneth J. Branco","doi":"10.1300/J078v12n01_05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078v12n01_05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study extends the growing literature on religiosity and mental health to include those in long-term care. A distress deterrent model and moderator/exacerbator model of religiosity's effects on depression are compared in a sample of 1449 nursing home residents from ten states. Both direct and interactive effects of religiosity in response to health, non-family, and family relationship stressors were tested using regression analysis. Direct effects of religious activity supporting the distress deterrent model were found only among white men. Moderation effects of prior church attendance on a non-family relationship stressor were found among white women. Exacerbation effects of family conflict on depression were found only among whites. Among blacks, strength of faith moderated the depressive effects of both health and non-family relationship stressors. Differential results by race and gender are discussed in light of prior research on religiosity and depression in the community dwelling elderly.","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"25 1","pages":"43 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078v12n01_05","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66766303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Experience of Spirituality in Older Women Finding Meaning in Life","authors":"L. K. P. Rn","doi":"10.1300/J078V12N01_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J078V12N01_03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Spirituality is a broad, multifaceted, multidimensional construct that appears to increase in importance with aging and may assist older adults in seeking meaning to life and responding to stressful life events. Research in the area of spirituality is lacking especially as it relates to older women. The purpose of this study was to explore spirituality in the lives of older women. A convenience sample of 210 older women completed the JAREL Spiritual Well-Being Scale. Overall, data analysis indicated that these women had a reasonably high level of spirituality. In addition, those women who described their health as good or excellent and had a college education had higher spirituality scores. In order to explore, describe and understand the experience of women's spirituality, further research is essential.","PeriodicalId":81692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of religious gerontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"5-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J078V12N01_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66765820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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