Spirituality and Older Women: Exploring Meaning Through Story Telling
Spirituality and Older Women: Exploring Meaning Through Story Telling
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灵性与老年女性：通过讲故事探索意义
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10.1300/j078v10n01_02
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1997
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M. O'Brien
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M. O'Brien
30名年龄在60到80岁之间的妇女是一个跨宗教的非宗教妇女团体的成员，她们的故事被收集起来，以探索她们对灵性的看法。有几项调查结果与当代女神学家的报告相一致：妇女的经历，因此她们的故事在结构上不那么线性，而更具有周期性，往往影响她们对衰老和死亡的理解;精神信仰往往超越传统的宗教形式;精神信仰的本质在于宗教传统、个人经历和与世界的关系的融合。虽然意义和目的的连续性存在于每个人的一生中，但这些女性将晚年生活的关键任务定义为为为死亡做准备，这通常被解释为与自然的合一，这一观点对进一步的神学理解有影响。
ABSTRACT The stories of thirty women, ages 60 to 80, members of an interfaith lay group of women, were gathered to explore their perceptions of spirituality. Several findings were consistent with those reported by contemporary women theologians: women's experiences and thus their stories are less linear and more cyclical in construction, often influencing their understandings of aging and death; spirituality frequently goes beyond traditional religious forms; and the essence of spirituality is found in the integration of religious tradition, personal experience and relationship to the world. Although a continuity of meaning and purpose existed over each one's lifetime, these women defined the critical task of later life as preparation for death, which was often interpreted in terms of oneness with nature, a view with implications for further theological understandings.