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| AARP Office of Academic Affairs, Free
hrmoody@yahoo.org
The Newsletter contains items of interest about humanistic gerontology; it does not publish original writing but is limited to brief and timely announcements. |
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| http://www.agewell.com/, Free
This site provides articles and audios on many aspects of aging well, with special emphasis on the place of meaning, purpose, and spirituality. |
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| http://www.beliefnet.com/, Free
A website with a mission to help people find, and walk, a spiritual path that will bring comfort, hope, clarity, strength, and happiness. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/100/1/
The authors report on the results of five different studies examining people’s anger toward God, especially in connection with negative life events. |
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| Pew Research Center, January 2010, Free
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1449/states-ranked-by-religiosity-four-measures
A state-by-state analysis of religiousness, based on the importance of religion in people's lives, frequency of attendance at worship services, frequency of prayer, and absolute certainty of belief in God. |
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| http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/52/1/91.abstract
Huijts and Kraykaamp find, based on a 28-nation analysis, that individual religious attendance is positively related to self-assessed health in Europe, and that Protestants feel healthier than Catholics. |
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| http://www.inwardquest.com/, Free
A site that lets people pose and/or answer questions about spirituality, philosophy, religion, and related topics. Its purpose is to promote accurate understanding rather than controversy. |
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| For Dummies, 2008, $24.99
http://www.amazon.com/Spirituality-Dummies-Sharon-Janis/dp/0470191422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274321720&sr=1-1#noop
Janis's book is a bit random in its organization but is also full of solid information and interesting surprises. |
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| Villard, 2000, $15.95
http://www.amazon.com/Seekers-previously-published-American-Spirituality/dp/0679783598/ref=pd_sim_b_5
Lesser expands upon her own spiritual quest to generate suggestions for other seekers. |
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| Pew Research Center, December 2009, Free
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1434/multiple-religious-practices-reincarnation-astrology-psychic
This report shows that many Americans attend worship services of more than one faith or denomination, and many also mix Christianity with Eastern or New Age beliefs. Sizeable minorities of all major U.S. religious groups say they have experienced supernatural phenomena. |
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| Anchor, 1998, $15.00
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Stages-Soul-Charting-Spiritual/dp/0385486774/ref=pd_sim_b_2
Taps all the major faith traditions in describing the five stages of spiritual development: the call, the search, the struggle, the breakthrough, and the return. |
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| http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/prayers/prayers.html, Free
Offers a broad selection of Orthodox Christian prayers |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123306099/abstract
The authors observe that religiousness relates to the “conservation / openness to change value dimension,” and spirituality relates to the desire for transcendence. |
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| January 2009, Free
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1099/religious-portrait-of-african-americans
Sahgal and Greg Smith drill down into the Pew Research religious survey data to look at the African-American subset, and their generally higher level or religiousness. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121390779/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
The authors find that older Americans tend to draw a distinction between religion and spirituality, where religion has to do with personal beliefs, community affiliation, and organized practices, while spirituality often is taken in a non-theistic sense. |
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| http://www.secondjourney.org/, Free
In addition to a variety of other spiritually relevant content dealing with our elder years and the aging process, an engaging and inspiring newsletter called Itineraries appears on this site quarterly. |
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| Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0021-8294
A multi-disciplinary journal that publishes articles, research notes, and book reviews on the social scientific study of religion. |
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| http://www.healyourillness.com/page.asp?page=3304, $29.95
The SSF is a 120 item spiritual development inventory that identifies your personal 'Spiritual Strengths Type.' Your type is dereived from your six strongest spiritual strengths organized in a frameowrk of personality functioning. |
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| Pew Research Center, 2009, Free
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1403/religious-landscape-survey-data-public-release
data from a representative sample of more than 35,000 U.S. adults. |
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| Pew Research Center, February 2009, Free
http://religions.pewforum.org/reports
Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, this study details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public. |
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| Wiley, 2000, $15.95
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Spirituality-Central-Practices-Awaken/dp/0471392162/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273595073&sr=1-10
Walsh draws on all the major religious traditions to advise us on practical steps toward reducing craving, cultivating emotional wisdom, living ethically, meditating, awakening the senses, growing intuition, and pursuing spiritual action. |
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| http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0102.pdf, Free
The various meanings of spirituality are explored here, along with their relationship to happiness, and the implications of all of this for planning and for advisers. |