The Transcendent Standard: The Religious Ethos of the Rural Elderly
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 22 (4) , 359-363
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/22.4.359
Abstract
This study explores how religion constructs a meaning and provides a guiding view of life for the rural elderly in upstate New York. The religious commitment among a representative sample of 259 elderly was found to be the result of a cognitive attempt on their part to render the world intelligible. The uniqueness of this religious phenomenon can best be understood along with its associated meanings and motivations, and as an ingredient in the austere valuation style and in the ascetic normative ethic of the elderly.Keywords
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