Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2207073
K. Skerrett
ABSTRACT This essay reflects the author’s personal and professional dedication to understanding how some individuals create life affirming, growth filled stories while others, also faced with challenges fail to flourish. Weaving together current thinking on adult development, the growth of the storied self, the cultivation of resilience in couples and families and ongoing research with older adults, the author infuses her clinical experiences as a psychologist with findings from a variety of research projects highlighting the many ways people traverse the aging process and reevaluate their place in the world. Integrating a personal dimension throughout. The author narrates her own exploration of soulful aging and the response to an inner call to repair and renew.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2196252
S. Katz
ABSTRACT The essay explores the Jewish life and career of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), suggesting how, with age, his understanding of his destiny as leader of a transformative intellectual movement grew into a soulful journey. Derrida’s celebrated volume of work, based on his masterful concept of deconstruction, is seen as integral to his personal struggle with his Jewishness. While Derrida has been the subject of numerous biographies, including many that debate the influence of his Jewish background, this essay considers more directly how his quest to discover alternative spaces of language and thought (and refuge) became increasingly linked to his interpretations of the radicality of Judaic traditions. The argument moves from a discussion of his childhood as an Algerian Sephardic Jew to his career and life in Paris, to the relationship between deconstruction and spirituality, and finally, to his reckoning in his later years with survivorship, legacy, faith, and wisdom as guides to his internal desert of wandering and revelation.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2194247
William L. Randall
ABSTRACT Recently retired as a professor of gerontology, the author reflects on his own experience of aging. Drawing on the sub-field of narrative gerontology, his area of specialization, and on age-related thoughts by writers like Florida Scott-Maxwell, Carl Jung, and Thomas Moore, he weaves together research concerning Gerotranscendence, Transpersonal Gerontology, and the transformative effects of so-called Near Death Experiences to articulate a vision of aging as, itself, a near-ing death experience. The result is a highly personal meditation on “soulful aging” as a matter of journeying slower, deeper, and wider into the intriguing landscape of later life.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2189212
W. Achenbaum
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Pub Date : 2023-03-19DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2189211
Janice Ryan
ABSTRACT Soulful Ageing - a lifetime cancer journey describes experiences of cancer and how such deely personal event in a lifetime provide a unique lens for understanding soulful ageing. The author shapes a descriptive journey with cancer at seventen and then again at sixrty years, and its spriitual awakenings, The health challenge of cancer over a lifetime strengthened faith, deepened a spiriutality, built on resileincy and fostered a heart of gratefulness.
{"title":"Soulful ageing- a lifetime cancer journey","authors":"Janice Ryan","doi":"10.1080/15528030.2023.2189211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528030.2023.2189211","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Soulful Ageing - a lifetime cancer journey describes experiences of cancer and how such deely personal event in a lifetime provide a unique lens for understanding soulful ageing. The author shapes a descriptive journey with cancer at seventen and then again at sixrty years, and its spriitual awakenings, The health challenge of cancer over a lifetime strengthened faith, deepened a spiriutality, built on resileincy and fostered a heart of gratefulness.","PeriodicalId":44539,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion Spirituality & Aging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89915930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2189210
Braveheart Gillani
ABSTRACT Soulful aging is a process of adding meaning to each part of the aging process. In order to navigate the wilderness of soulful aging, this essay seeks wisdom from ancient and contemporary sages, poets, philosophers, and analysts- weaving modern practices of mindful living and meaning creation with age old and sanctified notions of attaining wisdom. The author provides three axis of contemplation and paradigms to engage with while navigating soulful aging (1) Decolonizing Aging (2) Queering Aging and (3) Befriending aging.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-12DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2189647
F. Lang
ABSTRACT It is a well-known finding that perceived finitude plays a critical role in the process of aging. The current article addressed how perceptions of finitude and eternity contribute to a soulful aging experience. Infinity is introduced as a temporal concept involving endurance and everlasting existence of time that marks the opposite end of finitude of a human life. Eternity, in contrast, relates to a timeless concept going beyond time without beginning or ending characterized by omnipresence. While the soul reflects eternity, the aging experience pertains to finitude. I suggest that the experience of soulful aging requires an integrative balance between reflections and perceptions of eternity and finitude. This involves a reappraisal of personal finitude into one of the three possible perceptions of infinity, that is, one that views infinity as not including the self, one that views infinity in being commemorated, and one that construes infinity as a possible afterlife of a soul. Conversing personal finitude into perspectives of infinity and eternity may also contribute to positive outcomes in the process of aging.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2185996
J. Ellor
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2206676
Laura Upenieks, Neal M Krause
The last several decades have witnessed the topic of wisdom gaining momentum in the field of positive psychology. In this study, we focus on the potentially important role of religion/spirituality, specifically beliefs about God, as a mediating mechanism underlying the relationship between practical wisdom and depression among older adults. Drawing on a nationally representative sample of older adults from the 2013 wave of the Religion, Aging, and Health Survey (n = 1,497), our results show that practical wisdom is associated with lower depressive symptoms. We also document that three God-related constructs, God-mediated control, trust in God, and gratitude towards God each partially explained the relationship between wisdom and well-being. Taken together, Christian conceptions of God as a personal, divine being, the ultimate attachment figure who is an unconditional source of love and support for believers, may be a target of older adults who have cultivated practical wisdom.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/15528030.2023.2151695
J. Ellor
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