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| Sounds True, Inc., 2007, $14.95
Written by an anthropologist, educator, and award-winning author, this book is a collection of teachings, reflections, and stories from diverse cultures which opens readers to the challenge and deeper mysteries of the 'great crossing' at midlife. |
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| Da Capo Press, 2004, $15.95
Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, in time, The New Beginning. He explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. |
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| Da Capo Press, 2001, $15.95
Based on the author’s life experience of being in transition following the death of his wife, the book helps readers harness the transformative power of life’s disappointments and reveal the path to rejuvenation. |
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| National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers, February 2009, $5.00
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14720
The authors use data from the Gallup World Poll to show that the definition of a “good life,” encompassing both financial and social factors, is highly consistent from one nation and culture to the next. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=main.doiLanding&uid=2008-19072-012
Mickler and Staudinger find that adults age 60-80 did about the same as adults age 20-40 with regard to indicators of personality growth, subjective well-being, intelligence, critical life events, and general wisdom. |
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| Timmermann encourages advisors to help clients make the most of what they have, arguing that a change in life philosophy can be just as important as a financial change. |
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| American Association for Retired Persons, November 2008, Free
http://www.aarp.org/research/family/lifestyles/miracles_08.html
Anderson reports that large majorities of older Americans do believe in miracles, divine healings, and angels. In fact, 37% claim to have witnessed a miracle, and 11% to have seen an angel. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123201890/abstract
Baker and Smith divided non-believers into three groups, and found that atheists are the most uniformly antireligious; agnostics, by comparison, are less opposed to religion overall, while unchurched believers display higher levels of personal religiosity and spirituality than atheists or agnostics. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121501467/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
The authors find that religious people who pray frequently but conceive of God as remote or unloving are more likely that average to suffer from psychological pathology, but that people who pray and conceive of God as near and loving are less likely than average to experience psychopathologies. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123306100/abstract
Chaves dispels the notion that we should expect there to be any congruence between religious beliefs on the one hand, and religious attitudes or behaviors on the other. |
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| Pew Research Center, February 2010, Free
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1494/millennials-less-religious-in-practice-but-beliefs-quite-traditional
This study finds that while young American adults affiliate less with any particular faith and attend fewer religious services, their level of belief in God, heaven, and hell is comparable to that of their elders. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64A/12/1283
The authors find evidence that religious attendance may offer mental stimulation that helps to maintain cognitive functioning in later life. |
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| National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers, August 2009, $5.00
http://www.nber.org/papers/w15271
Deaton uses data from the Gallup World Poll to study correlations between religiosity, gender, health, and other factors. His findings support the customary observations, but reveal additional details - and also variations by country. |
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| http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/6/816
The authors conclude that common assumptions about the links between religious identification, beliefs, practices, and communal solidarity need to be reassessed, based on their results. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64B/4/528
The authors find that religious involvement tends to remain quite stable until very near the end of life, and it is positively correlated with quality of life. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123201905/abstract
Krause finds that having a close personal relationship with God is associated with a stronger sense of self-esteem at the baseline and follow-up interviews. In contrast, emotional support from fellow church members was not associated with self-esteem at either point in time. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/97/5/866/
The authors found that women (but not men) with the lowest degrees of religiousness through adulthood had shorter lives than did women who were more religious - largely attributable to differences in personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121501469/abstract
Schieman reports that the well-established correlation between religiosity/attendance and lower levels of depression, anxiety, alcohol use, and ill health is stronger among those with less education, and he investigates some of the factors that contribute to this pattern. |
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| http://psychsoc.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/5/S293
After studying Chinese people age 80 to 105, Zhang found religious participation to be significantly associated with lower risk of mortality for the oldest old women and for individuals in poor health. Engaging in leisure activities and exercises partially accounted for this association. |
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| Hyperion Books, 2005 (10th Anniversary edition), $14.95
Presents meditation practices as a natural activity that can be practiced at any time and any place. The author promotes 'mindfulness,' a more than 2000-year-old Buddhist method of living fully in the present, observing ourselves, our feeling, others and our surroundings without judging them. |
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| http://gerontologist.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/135
Describes how mindfulness-based interventions have potential within the context of geriatric medicine and gerontology, especially why mindfulness may be particularly useful in promoting physical activity among older adults and how physical activity may be used as a vehicle to promote mindfulness. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120083089/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Sointu and Woodhead argue that “holistic spiritualities align with traditional spheres and representations of femininity, while simultaneously supporting and encouraging a move away from selfless to expressive selfhood,” accounting for the greater involvement of women in “holistic spirituality.” |
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| http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(10)00052-8
The authors report observing that selective damage to left and right inferior posterior parietal regions induces a specific increase in the predisposition toward spiritual feeling, thinking, and behaviors. |
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| Vanarelli explains and promotes the concept of elder mediation. |
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| Penguin Books, 2002, $15.00
The authors present ways to create innovative paradigms for personal and professional development and emphasizes that possibility is infinite. An extraordinarily useful national best seller and a delightful read. |
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