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Ageing, ritual, and social change : comparing the secular and religious in Eastern and Western Europe / edited by Peter Coleman, University of Southampton, UK, Daniela Koleva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, Joanna Bornat, Open University, London, UK. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate AHRC/ESRC religion and society seriesPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, (c)2013.Description: xvii, 283 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409452140
  • 9781409452157
  • 9781409452164
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL625.B736.A345 2013
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Contents:
Setting the scene -- Ageing and ritual in a changing Europe Peter G. Coleman, Daniel Koleva and Joanna Bornat -- Challenge of difference: approaching comparative oral history Joanna Bornat -- Ritual and story in Bulgaria, Romania, and the UK -- 'I will die orthodox': religion and belonging in life stories of the socialist era in Romania and Bulgaria Simina Badica -- 'God can wait': composing non-religious narratives in secular and post-communit societies Hilary Young -- Ineffable silence and the sacred: crucial moments in life histories Sidonia Grama -- Performing social normativity: religious rituals in secular lives Daniela Koleva -- Death and loss -- Personal ideologies of death: shaping the (post)self in rituals Galina Goncharova -- Belief in the context of bereavement: the potential therapeutic properties associated with religious belief and ritual John H. Spreadbury -- Gendered ageing and religion -- Social change and well-being: the place of religion in older Bulgarian men's lives Ignat C. Petrov and Peter G. Coleman -- Religiosity and women's ageing: biographical perspectives Teodora Karamelska -- Review and conclusions -- Ritual in the changing lives of the very old Peter G. Coleman, Sidonia Grama and Ignat C. Petrov -- Reflections on the study: why are there no simple answers? Joanna Bornat and Daniela Koleva.
Subject: Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course. Drawing on fascinating oral histories of older people's memories in both Eastern and Western Europe, this book presents illuminating views on peoples' quests for existential meaning in later life and an invaluable resource for all those exploring issues of ageing.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Setting the scene -- Ageing and ritual in a changing Europe Peter G. Coleman, Daniel Koleva and Joanna Bornat -- Challenge of difference: approaching comparative oral history Joanna Bornat -- Ritual and story in Bulgaria, Romania, and the UK -- 'I will die orthodox': religion and belonging in life stories of the socialist era in Romania and Bulgaria Simina Badica -- 'God can wait': composing non-religious narratives in secular and post-communit societies Hilary Young -- Ineffable silence and the sacred: crucial moments in life histories Sidonia Grama -- Performing social normativity: religious rituals in secular lives Daniela Koleva -- Death and loss -- Personal ideologies of death: shaping the (post)self in rituals Galina Goncharova -- Belief in the context of bereavement: the potential therapeutic properties associated with religious belief and ritual John H. Spreadbury -- Gendered ageing and religion -- Social change and well-being: the place of religion in older Bulgarian men's lives Ignat C. Petrov and Peter G. Coleman -- Religiosity and women's ageing: biographical perspectives Teodora Karamelska -- Review and conclusions -- Ritual in the changing lives of the very old Peter G. Coleman, Sidonia Grama and Ignat C. Petrov -- Reflections on the study: why are there no simple answers? Joanna Bornat and Daniela Koleva.

Exploring European changes in religious and secular beliefs and practices related to life passages, this book provides a deeper understanding of the impacts of social change on personal identity and adjustment across the life course. Drawing on fascinating oral histories of older people's memories in both Eastern and Western Europe, this book presents illuminating views on peoples' quests for existential meaning in later life and an invaluable resource for all those exploring issues of ageing.

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