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Understanding spirituality and religiosity in the transgender community
— implications for aging | | Author(s) | Jeremy D Kidd, Tarynn M Witten |
| Journal title | Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, vol 20, no 1-2, 2008 |
| Publisher | The Haworth Press, Inc., Binghamton, NY, 2008 |
| Pages | pp 29-62 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Religion ; Sexual orientation ; Elder abuse ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | An examination of the religious, spiritual and faith beliefs of female to male (FTM) transgender identified people was undertaken, while also bearing mind problems that this population encounters with violence, abuse and other negative life events. Results from the FTM survey are reported, along with those found in the larger mixed transgender population, Transience Longitudinal Aging Research Study (TLARS). Participants talked about their religiosity, spirituality or faith beliefs as measured by the Fetzer Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness / Spirituality instrument and by the TLARS survey instrument, violence and abuse sub-component. The researchers found that respondents' religious beliefs differed so dramatically from the normative Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief systems on which conventional psychometric instruments are based, that many of the survey respondents expressed difficulty in completing the survey's religiosity/spirituality/faith component. The researchers conclude that the traditional instruments are not likely to be effective for the study of religiosity/spirituality/faith structures in both the narrow FTM and the more general transgender identified populations. These findings indicate the need for both a comprehensive ethnographic investigation of FTM religiosity/spirituality/faith structures and also a reconstruction of conventional religiosity/spirituality/faith psychometric instruments more reflective of the life experiences of FTM-declared individuals as well as the more generally transgender populations as a whole. From this, it follows that practitioners who work with older people of these populations must be aware of the diverse and non-traditional nature of belief structures and how these mediate life course development and affect late and end-of-life struggles. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080709204 A |
| Classmark | EX: TR: ES6: QNT: 3F: 7T |
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