Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible

Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible
Author: Paul K.-K. Cho
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1108476198

Explores the influence of the sea myth at the structural and conceptual foundations of the Hebrew Bible.

Finding Meaning in Life, at Midlife and Beyond

Finding Meaning in Life, at Midlife and Beyond
Author: David Guttmann
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0313360189

Having been mentored by Viktor E. Frankl, the founder of logotherapy, Emeritus Professor David Guttmann authored this book so general readers may understand this approach to finding meaning in life at the point when most of us begin deeply wondering over that question, at midlife and beyond. Especially in this day and age of multiple demands on our time and seemingly non-stop obligations, we too often find that it is only when the dust settles, after a work day or work week, or even after retirement, when we begin to wonder: What is the meaning of life? The purpose? This book is a new millennium venture into those questions and their answers using logotherapy, written by a sage understudy who recalls Frankl, with his logotherapy, as the epitome of his theory even at 80 years old, wise and witty, exuding an energy, enthusiasm and youthful spirit that belied his years by decades. Aging does not diminish our power, our energy, and our quest for life, but reshapes it with new understandings, goals, and needs. But, says Guttmann, we live in a technical and machine-based world now, in which there is a danger of losing our souls. Here, readers find a new, creative perspective on aging and a fresh spiritual outlook. This book will be of interest not only to general readers, especially those at midlife and beyond, but also to their families, friends, and students or professionals in the helping professions. This unique work provides knowledge to find meaning in life derived from the fields of philosophy, psychology, religion and gerontology, with case illustrations and vignettes to give readers both intellectual pleasure and practical guidance.

The Gerontological Prism: Developing Interdisciplinary Bridges

The Gerontological Prism: Developing Interdisciplinary Bridges
Author: Jeffrey Michael Clair
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351841238

"The Gerontological Prism" promotes disciplinary cooperation in aging research and practice. To some extent, each chapter explores a unified objective, that of generating a disciplinary-blind gerontology. The fundamental assumption throughout this book is that the aging individual and society can be enhanced by an understanding of the correlates of basic social, behavioral, demographic, economic, political, ethical, and biomedical processes involving aging. Each author touches on issues that have both social psychological, and practical policy significance. They aim toward sensitizing the reader to the possibilities of a properly informed interdisciplinary approach to gerontology.

The Meanings of Age

The Meanings of Age
Author: Bernice L. Neugarten
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1996-12-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780226573847

Neugarten, who explains and highlights Neugarten's contributions in light of the most recent research in the fields of gerontology and social policy. Carefully edited by Dail A. Neugarten, each chapter presents the reader with Bernice Neugarten's original formulations on topics such as age norms and age constraints, the changing meanings of age, and age-neutral social policy.

Facing the Mirror

Facing the Mirror
Author: Frida Furman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136785752

This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. These older, mostly Jewish women articulate their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon. This book explores the socio-moral significance of these experiences which reveals as much about society as about older women themselves. Women's narratives expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the ways women perceive reality, make choices and live in their worlds.

Metaphors of Identity

Metaphors of Identity
Author: Thomas K. Fitzgerald
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1993-09-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438402945

Placing identity within its cultural context, Fitzgerald offers ethnographic case material to examine the meaning and changing metaphors of ethnicity, male and female identity, and aging and identity. He opens up an exciting multidisciplinary dialogue for improving interpersonal and cross-cultural communication. The book provides a clear synthesis of the interrelated meanings of culture, identity, and communication, examining self-concept and its role in the communication process, and exploring cultural and biological research on self, individuality, personality, and mind-body questions.

Gerontology

Gerontology
Author: Madonna Harrington Meyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Written by established and emerging leaders in a broad array of disciplines, this two-volume set provides undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers with an overview of the field of aging that examines the social landscape as well as key changes, challenges, and solutions. The people who make up the rapidly growing population of Americans over age 65 are changing, and as a result, our nation will change. This shift presents new issues, controversies, and challenges that affect health, wellness, welfare, retirement, politics, and economics. This two-volume work examines where we are and where we are headed, paying careful attention to the differential impacts of gender, race, class, marital status, and other social variables. It considers key changes in demographics, old-age policies, families, work, and death and dying. Volume one covers an array of demographic issues, policies, and politics, highlighting how factors such as gender and race shape families, income, retirement, immigrants, and veterans across the life course. The second volume covers education, religion, volunteering, exercise, nutrition, and health care policies across the life course. Topics addressed include the old-age welfare state, the extension of retirement age, home care, care work, nursing home care, end of life planning, and euthanasia.

Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Author: Parin Dossa
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-03-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0813588103

Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships—the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.