LEADER 04262nam 22005893 450 001 996449437903316 005 20240322173541.0 010 $a1-9788-2231-6 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978822313 035 $a(CKB)4100000011955085 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6637343 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6637343 035 $a(OCoLC)1255596835 035 $a(DE-B1597)590583 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978822313 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011955085 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEmbracing Age $eHow Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well 210 1$aNew Brunswick :$cRutgers University Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (203 pages) 225 1 $aGlobal Perspectives on Aging 311 $a1-9788-2228-6 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$tPart 1 Being Well in the Convent Prayer and Care in Interaction --$t1 Life in the Convent --$t2 Being Is Harder Than Doing The Process of Embracing Aging --$t3 Talking to God Prayer as Social Support --$t4 Care, Elderspeak, and Meaningful Engagement --$tPart 2 Shaping Experience The Convent in Sociohistorical Context --$t5 Changing God, Changing Bodies How Prayer Practices Shape Embodied Experience --$t6 Spiritual Healing, Meaningful Decline, and Sister Death --$t7 Kenosis Emptying the Self --$tConclusion --$tAppendix Transcription Conventions --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aEmbracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream American experiences. In mainstream American society, aging is presented as a "problem," a state to be avoided as long as possible, a state that threatens one's ability to maintain independence, autonomy, control over one's surroundings. Aging "well" (or avoiding aging) has become a twenty-first century American preoccupation. Embracing Age provides a window into the everyday lives of American Catholic nuns who experience longevity and remarkable health and well-being at the end of life. Catholic nuns aren't only healthier in older age, they are healthier because they practice a culture of acceptance and grace around aging. Embracing Age demonstrates how aging in the convent becomes understood by the nuns to be a natural part of the life course, not one to be feared or avoided. Anna I. Corwin shows readers how Catholic nuns create a cultural community that provides a model for how to grow old, decline, and die that is both embedded in American culture and quite distinct from other American models. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 410 0$aGlobal perspectives on aging series 517 $aEmbracing Age 606 $aAging$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church 606 $aAging$zUnited States 606 $aMonastic and religious life of women$zUnited States 606 $aNuns$xReligious life 606 $aFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General$2bisacsh 610 $aage, ageist, ageism, old, old people, grandparent, grandmother, grandfather, elder, elderly, older, old age, wrinkle, wrinkles, medicare, social security, public policy, midlife, dementia, suicide, social movement, social justice, health, anti-aging, prevention, public health, exercise, independence, control aging, prevent aging, aging, Catholocism, Catholic nuns, nuns, embracing age, age studies, religion, spiritual healing, elderspeak. 615 0$aAging$xReligious aspects$xCatholic Church. 615 0$aAging 615 0$aMonastic and religious life of women 615 0$aNuns$xReligious life. 615 7$aFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General. 676 $a271.97 700 $aCorwin$b Anna I$01071309 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996449437903316 996 $aEmbracing Age$92566717 997 $aUNISA