Embracing Age
How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well
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2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2228-3 (ISBN)
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Examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. Embracing Age provides a window into the everyday lives of American Catholic nuns who experience longevity and remarkable health and well-being at the end of life.
Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. In mainstream American society, aging is presented as a “problem,” a state to be avoided as long as possible, a state that threatens one’s ability to maintain independence, autonomy, control over one’s surroundings. Aging “well” (or avoiding aging) has become a twenty-first century American preoccupation. Embracing Age provides a window into the everyday lives of American Catholic nuns who experience longevity and remarkable health and well-being at the end of life. Catholic nuns aren’t only healthier in older age, they are healthier because they practice a culture of acceptance and grace around aging. Embracing Age demonstrates how aging in the convent becomes understood by the nuns to be a natural part of the life course, not one to be feared or avoided. Anna I. Corwin shows readers how Catholic nuns create a cultural community that provides a model for how to grow old, decline, and die that is both embedded in American culture and quite distinct from other American models.
Instructor's Guide is available at no cost (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/26120146/corwin_instructor_guide_final.pdf).
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Download open access ebook here.
Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. In mainstream American society, aging is presented as a “problem,” a state to be avoided as long as possible, a state that threatens one’s ability to maintain independence, autonomy, control over one’s surroundings. Aging “well” (or avoiding aging) has become a twenty-first century American preoccupation. Embracing Age provides a window into the everyday lives of American Catholic nuns who experience longevity and remarkable health and well-being at the end of life. Catholic nuns aren’t only healthier in older age, they are healthier because they practice a culture of acceptance and grace around aging. Embracing Age demonstrates how aging in the convent becomes understood by the nuns to be a natural part of the life course, not one to be feared or avoided. Anna I. Corwin shows readers how Catholic nuns create a cultural community that provides a model for how to grow old, decline, and die that is both embedded in American culture and quite distinct from other American models.
Instructor's Guide is available at no cost (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/26120146/corwin_instructor_guide_final.pdf).
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Download open access ebook here.
ANNA I. CORWIN is an associate professor of anthropology at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga.
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I Being Well in the Convent: Prayer and Care in Interaction
1 Life in the Convent
2 Being Is Harder Than Doing: The Process of Embracing Aging
3 Talking to God: Prayer as Social Support
4 Care, Elderspeak, and Meaningful Engagement
Part II Shaping Experience: The Convent in Sociohistorical Context
5 Changing God, Changing Bodies: How Prayer Practices Shape Embodied Experience
6 Spiritual Healing, Meaningful Decline, and Sister Death
7 Kenosis: Emptying the Self
Conclusion
Appendix: Transcription Conventions
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.07.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 b-w images, 6 tables |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 4 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-2228-6 / 1978822286 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-2228-3 / 9781978822283 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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