Anna I Corwin

Embracing Age

How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well

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Produktbeschreibung

Embracing Age reveals that aging is not only a biological process, but is also shaped by what the process of growing older means to us. By examining Catholic nuns, a group that experiences positive health outcomes in older age, Anna I. Corwin reveals the connections between culture, language, and the experience of aging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 4g
• ISBN-13: 9781978822283
• ISBN-10: 1978822286
• Artikelnr.: 62158588

Autorenporträt

ANNA I. CORWIN is an associate professor of anthropology at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga.

Inhaltsangabe

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