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Community, affect and family relations — a cross-cultural study of spiritual resiliency in eight old women
Author(s)	Janet L Ramsey, Rosemary Blieszner
Journal title	Journal of Religious Gerontology, vol 11, no 1, 2000
Pages	pp 39-64
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Older women ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Family relationships ; Cross cultural surveys ; United States of America ; Germany.
Annotation	Paying attention to emotionally resilient people is long overdue, particularly resilient old people. Seniors frequently cite religious faith as a primary source of strength during difficult losses and transitions. Accordingly, the focus of this study was eight in-depth interviews with older women over 65 in the US and Germany, to see how they are empowered by their spirituality to transcend significant loss and traumatic family events. Themes of community affect, and relationality occurred repeatedly in the narratives, revealing both unique and universal aspects of the women's spiritualities and confirming the centrality of religion as a neglected factor in family studies research. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011023203 A
Classmark	BD: EX: DS:SJ: 3KA: 7T: 767
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